Last November, a country with a long, complicated history with the U.S. held its presidential election. Its president was seeking a fourth consecutive term and made sure nothing stood in his way. He changed the country's laws, silenced the media and locked up candidates who planned to run against him.
Because of that, Cárdenas says police had been harassing him outside of their home for months, but on June 8 they came in. José Miguel Vivanco was a director for Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit advocacy group that's been reporting from inside Nicaragua for decades. Ortega's Sandinista Guerillas were credited with bringing down the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua. Later they fought off the U.S.-sponsored Contras.Ortega was voted out of office in 1990, but returned to power in 2006 promising to fight corruption. Instead, he tightened his grip on the country. First, changing the constitution so he could serve more terms, then, making his wife, Rosario Murillo - an eccentric, new-age poet - his vice president.
José Miguel Vivanco: All of those crimes, all of those atrocities committed by Ortega and his security forces just a couple of years ago, he was able to get away with those crimes.ealized that if he lost power he might be imprisoned for what Nicaraguan journalists called a"massacre" of protestors. Félix Maradiaga at Geneva Summit: Very few people around the world doubt that Nicaragua is a dictatorship.
But the opposition never got the chance to put their candidate forward. Most were arrested or fled the country before they could file the paperwork to officially put them on the ballot. Berta Valle: That's what I want to believe, you know? We-- we have the hope that-- that he is okay, but we don't know. And that's why we are asking for a proof of life to this point. And this is why we are doing all this effort to come out and to-- to go to the international community. Because there's nothing we can do in Nicaragua.
Victoria Cárdenas: It's a violation of the basic human rights. It's not only my family who is suffering, it's more than 140 families who have political prisoners who are innocent and are living this awful situation.
Come on, Leftoids! Off you go to Nicaragua, to help with the coffee harvest and to support the 'revolution'🤡🤣🤡
Like the USA
So sad
It always amazes me when any American entity calls out other countries for destroying democracy when their democracy was stolen by the oligarchy decades ago and Washington has become nothing more than a stage set used to create and pass laws to further enrich the oligarchy.
What kind of parents raise these tyrants? There are way too many of them, and how do citizens vote and/or put up with this evilness?
Republican?
This gov. has been treating his people so bad for yrs but now that Ortega is giving a green light for Russian forces to put boots on their country, the international community is concern about his Dictatorship? lol.
Thanks, Hillary & Obama 🙄
Pero los pueblos no experimentan por cabeza ajena. Si se detienen un poquito a analizar lo que ocurre en Cuba o Venezuela no se estarían lamentando. Los comunistas llegan al poder para convertirse en dictadores. Eso es así.
People love that shit
Is Trump Force 1 on the way to Managua to take notes. This sounds like the MAGA crowd in Spanish.
This is what the left wants in America 😅
Another bum only interested in self preservation
It's about time that free, democratic countries no longer tolerate these kinds of thugs. As we have learned with Putin these autocrats will rather sooner than later spread violence and war. Ortega must be sanctioned as hard as Putin! 'Business' as usual has to stop!
We live under a dictatorship in Nicaragua, no democracy since 2006. With these two criminal killers
Grotesque couple. Those two are like a Latino version of Nicolae and Elena Ceauscescu. He's a monster, but she's even worse.
Sounds like the January 6 committee