To be clear, November 7 is a complete farce. Rather than anything resembling a democratic election, the events of that day will approximate a coronation ...
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What to expect from the Nicaraguan elections
Ryan C. Berg and Robert Carlson | 
The reasons behind Ortega and Murillo’s Nicaragua crackdown
Christine Wade | 
International opposition has had little effect so far on repression in Nicaragua. To understand why, it’s important to recognize Ortega and Murillo’s ...
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If sanctions failed to solve Nicaragua’s crisis, will more sanctions succeed?
Tiziano Breda | 
Hopes for a peaceful, diplomatic outcome may seem slender. But confidence that tougher sanctions will do the job on their own may be even more misplaced.
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Is the Ortega-Murillo administration immune to the effects of the pandemic?
Carlos Murillo Zamora |
Despite the Nicaraguan reality of social and economic distress, the Ortega-Murillo administration's mix of authoritarian democracy appears to be holding ...
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An interview with Richard Feinberg, nonresident senior fellow at the Latin America Initiative at Brookings and professor at UCSD
At Global Americans, we’ve been following the crisis in Nicaragua very closely. For our latest interview we spoke to Richard Feinberg and discussed his ...
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An interview with Nicaraguan Journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro
As the political crisis in Nicaragua continues to deepen, Global Americans' Chris Sabatini and Ken Frankel from the Canadian Council of the Americas ...
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The roots of the Nicaraguan crisis: Collective guilt
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Whenever an authoritarian ruler succeeds in subverting democracy, the responsibility for the democratic backsliding must be more widely shared. Here’s why.
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Venezuela, Nicaragua… We should have seen it coming
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The political and human rights crises in Venezuela and Nicaragua were predictable. It may have been preventable too, if media, multilateral institutions ...
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