Nicaraguan police this week detained prominent opposition figures, including several presidential candidates, in what many observers say is an inexorable rollback to dictatorship, with apparently no way out. (Read this article in Spanish)

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40 years after Somoza, Nicaragua fears returning to the dictatorship with Daniel Ortega

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton investigate how the United States funded violent far-right groups and media outlets that published fake news to fuel a 2018 coup attempt against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. (Puede leer o ver este informe en español aquí.

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(CNN Spanish) - The Nicaraguan Public Ministry reported this Friday that the courts determined that Violeta Granera and José Pallais, leaders of the opposition National Coalition, will remain in detention for 90 days while the investigation that follows them is expanded.

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In Nicaragua, opposition leaders Violeta Granera and José Pallais are sent to prison for 90 days

Nicaragua's sweeping crackdown on opposition poses a test for US President Joe Biden, who has put a top priority on promoting democracy and promised a new, wiser approach in Latin America but has so far deviated little from his predecessor Donald Trump.



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The global community urged Nicaragua to free four recently-detained opposition presidential candidates, as the United States announced sanctions against allies of long-serving leader Daniel Ortega.The detention of the four — the last two of whom were rounded up on Tuesday — has legally ruled them out of November presidential elections in which Ortega is widely expected to seek a fourth consecutive term.

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Months before a crucial election in Nicaragua, a crackdown on dissent seems to be reaching new levels of aggression. In less than a week, seven of President Ortega's most high-profile opponents have been detained as Ortega seeks a fourth term in office. CNN's Matt Rivers reports.

Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega clamps down opposition

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A senior U.S. official said Thursday that less than two week ago, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Nicaragua's foreign minister that the Biden administration would respect the results of free and fair elections in November.

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(CNN Spanish) - The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, considers that in Nicaragua the Government of Daniel Ortega does not exercise power according to the rule of law, which is considered a dictatorship. This is what he said in an interview with Fernando del Rincón in CNN Conclusions. Almagro requested an "emergency meeting" of the Permanent Council of that hemispheric body to discuss the possible susp…

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Almagro: There is a dictatorship in Nicaragua

Police in Nicaragua detained another leading opposition politician and potential presidential candidate Saturday, the latest in a series of moves by President Daniel Ortega that prevent candidates from running against him in his third consecutive re-election bid.

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