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The United States warned Tuesday that it "will not stand by" after Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced there will be no more elections -- igniting fears over an accelerating slide towards one ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Nicaragua ends all elections: How president compares to world's strongmen
Daniel Ortega rules Nicaragua alongside his wife, Rosario Murillo, and both have been widely accused of human rights abuses.
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Nicaragua’s President Ortega moves to extend his 20-year rule and says no elections anytime soon
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 dashing hopes by ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega cancels election after two decades in power
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega ruled out on Sunday any possibility of elections to prevent the opposition from taking office, after almost two decades in power.
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Ortega ends elections, declares lifelong dictatorship in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (81), whose total rule spans nearly 25 years, has declared he will no longer hold presidential elections. Ortega, a leftist anti-American leader in Latin America who ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: 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, told ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: 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 » Government: 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 ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Jesuits urge Ortega to ‘stop the repression’ on one year anniversary of Nicaragua’s government seizing university
The Central American Province of the Society of Jesus acknowledged on Aug. 15 the anniversary of the loss of the Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, “with deep pain and indignation, but ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: Review follows election fraud allegations in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (CNN) -- 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, ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Government: 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 ...