cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49691588
July 20 (Reuters) - Nicaragua’s long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife.
Ortega, who has continuously held power since 2007 following an earlier presidential term in the 1980s, said the move will close off any path to the opposition, although he did not provide details about carrying out the measure.
Another US/Israel vs Russia proxy war
It was a only a matter of time before Nicaragua hit headlines with it now being the last functionally standing member of the Venezuela/Cuba/Nicaragua troika. With Venezuela it was the oil, with Nicaragua it looks like it’s the gold mining that was added to a massive list of US sanctions from 2022
Choked by sanctions like the others and seeing what happened to Venezuela I’m not surprised they have ended elections, ramped up defence and last year started making military agreements with Moscow
Give it a few months and the Ortegas will be in US prisons or dead
More at https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaraguan-officials-committed-systematic-repression-un-says-2025-04-03/
I’ve noticed the usual BurgerReich propaganda machine has kicked into overdrive, along with Western credulity.
BurgerReich, hah, I love that term