Nicaragua’s Election on Sunday, More like a "Coronation" of Daniel Ortega
Nicaragua’s Election on Sunday, More like a "Coronation" of Daniel Ortega
"The international community can and must acknowledge that the elections are fraudulent," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in Univision.
Nicaraguans head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election where the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
“Democracy is dead in Nicaragua. No credible conditions exist for democratic elections,” said Jennie Lincoln, a veteran election observer and at The Carter Center, founded by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter. “What they have engineered is a coronation of Daniel Ortega,” she added…
“The international community can and must acknowledge that the elections are fraudulent, that they are occurring under conditions that are in no way democratic, and that, therefore, the results are illegitimate,” said Eric Farnsworth, Washington director of the Council of the Americas…
So far, sanctions have proven ineffective and experts warn they should be used carefully. “It’s delicate because you don’t want to harm people who are essentially blameless, but the most potent tool to use in this circumstance is economic pressure. You have to hope and try to structure economic pressure so that it does not harm people in, for example, in the agriculture sector or manufacturing sector, who have no particular say in the Ortega regime,” said Farnsworth…
