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polsan
  2/12/2021 23:16 EST

Will Nicaragua see a return to the dark days of neo-liberalism and the country is likely to turn into another Honduras, subject to US diktat?
here is a very good read:
https://janataweekly.org/2021-a-crucial-year-for-nicaragua/

dalepues
  2/15/2021 15:32 EST

You are making a statement by asking a question. In rhetoric this is called a loaded question (ex. When did you stop beating your wife?)

So I'll answer with a question: What do you call a politician who controls "every aspect of government ... the National Assembly, the Supreme Court, the armed forces, the judiciary, the police and the prosecutor’s office" (journalist, Frances Robles);[80] [and has] "aggressively dismantled all institutional checks on presidential power" (Human Rights Watch).[81]"?

And another: Is having Rosario Murillo (Ortega's wife) as Vice President a textbook example of nepotism? And: Have you considered that the ruling family in Nicaragua could be considered a dictatorship, with absolute power and no opposition?

I am not saying that Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo have not governed Nicaragua well. That would be my question to you.

Perhaps you might ask Nicaraguans this simple question: is your life better or worse since Daniel Ortega has been President.

And you might do as I did, read the Wikipedia entry on Daniel Ortega.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ortega 

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polsan
  2/15/2021 19:06 EST

dalepues, I just give you a simple answer: I'm very impressed what Ortega did for Nicaragua (if the article that I quoted is true) and I'd like it to stay that way. If he loses the whole hell will get loose. I don't want to move and live there when Nica goes back to be under USA regime. We all know how much destruction and havoc USA can cause to inconvenient countries.

quotaquasi
  2/16/2021 20:08 EST

THE EIU Democracy Index rates Managua as an authoritarian regime, not a hybrid or a flawed democracy. Which means that the election is just for show,

And it's also wrong to think of the Ortega/Murillo gov't as being leftist. It's more like a centrist authoritarian regime, with critical support from Nicaragua business interests. The Nicaraguan activists on the left revile Ortega, and consider him to be a traitor to the Sandanista movement.

polsan
  2/16/2021 21:12 EST

"THE EIU Democracy Index rates Managua as an authoritarian regime"
And that's the pretext USA will use to stir trouble as they did in Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc.
Are you people worried that it might get worse when Ortega loses?

Btranquilo22
  2/17/2021 02:43 EST

Two comments from a gringo who has spent a lot of time in Nic and is close to a Nica family in Leon.
I was amazed back in 2018 that one of the young women in the family began posting anti Ortega information on her FB page. I sent her a message and said I was surprised to see her saying those things about her President (Ortega). She responded immediately and said "he is not our President, he is our Dictator." She became an activist involved in some of the demonstrations against Ortega but after seeing some of the protestors beaten up, hearing about some of the killings, etc. and being threatened herself and having her family threatened, she had to stop her activism out of fear. She went up to Honduras for awhile and recently returned. However, she still despises Daniel and Rosario.
Second comment. I am also close to another family in Leon, the father was in the Sandanista Army and took me on a wonderful tour of the Museum of the Revolution in Leon. I asked him what he thought of Ortega in 2010 as Ortega was preparing to run for President again. He said - "Before Ortega your boss could fire you and treat you bad and there was nothing you could do about it; with Ortega as President we have rights for the first time. " I asked the man why Ortega did not train and nurture someone to take his place, why did he have to keep running for President. The father did not answer me and was silent and looked away.

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polsan
  2/17/2021 04:57 EST

Btranquilo22 thats very interesting, thanks for sharing

Alecjacs
  2/17/2021 11:32 EST

When Ortega loses? My understanding, from advanced polls is He will win elections.

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