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MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said his country won’t be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman's efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Nicaragua buries democracy to build a Chinese-backed economic fortress
By Alek Buttermann Daniel Ortega has stopped pretending. On July 19, at a rally marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, Nicaragua's 80-year-old strongman and former revolutionary ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Nicaragua’s president declares end to elections
Nicaragua’s president has declared his government will no longer hold elections. Daniel Ortega, who has held a tight grip on power in the Central American country since 2007, to ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Ortega says Nicaragua will hold no more elections
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Sunday that the country will no longer hold elections as a mechanism for the opposition to reach power. “There will be no more elections here for them to try ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Nicaragua's Ortega Declares 'No More Elections,' Says Opposition Will Never Regain Power
President Daniel Ortega said Nicaragua will no longer hold elections, declaring that opposition parties will not be allowed to return to power.
News Nicaragua » Managua: Daniel Ortega Says Nicaragua Will Not Hold Elections Again
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has been in power for nearly two decades, ruled out on Sunday any possibility of future elections in the country, saying they could allow the exiled opposition ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: 80-year-old Catholic bishop detained in Nicaragua amid crackdown on Christians: watchdog
An 80-year-old Roman Catholic bishop and three other Catholic leaders were detained in Nicaragua last week amid an ongoing crackdown against Christians in the country ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Review follows election fraud allegations in Nicaragua
Nicaragua's election council will allow a review of the mayoral election in the nation's capital after opponents of the ruling Sandinista Party raised fraud allegations, the council's president said ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: US State Department warns against travel to Nicaragua amid civil unrest
American travelers have been told to take extreme caution if they choose to visit, with civil demonstrations and crime cited as areas of risk.
News Nicaragua » Managua: Nicaragua cuts ties with Italy over 1978 PM assassination dispute
Managua said it was severing diplomatic relations after Rome criticised it for harbouring a Red Brigades terrorist convicted of the murder of ex-PM Aldo Moro.
News Nicaragua » Managua: Nicaragua Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Italy Over Red Brigades Extradition Dispute
Nicaragua has officially severed diplomatic relations with Italy after a renewed dispute over the extradition of former Red Brigades militant Alessio Casimirri, intensifying a decades-long conflict ...
News Nicaragua » Managua: Despite threats and government harassment, 11 Jesuits remain in Nicaragua
Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President ...