Nicaragua: How Latin America Reacted
From condemnation to praise, many of the region’s biggest players weighed in on Sunday’s election.
After jailing opposition leaders, silencing independent media and harshly criminalizing dissent, President Daniel Ortega secured a fourth consecutive term as Nicaragua’s president on November 7, garnering messages of support from Venezuela, Russia, Bolivia and Cuba. Positioning on the recent Nicaraguan elections has become something of an ideological litmus test for political groups across Latin America. While many Latin American governments were quick to decry the illegitimacy of the Ortega-Murillo victory, leftist parties throughout the region struggled to unite under a common...
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