Ortega tightens grip on Nicaragua
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega won even more control over the levers of his nation when 28 opposition lawmakers were ousted from parliament by electoral authorities.
The move meant "all formalities and pillars of representative democracy have been eliminated; we are face-to-face with a dictatorship," charged an ex-lawmaker, Jose Pallais.
Ortega, a former leftwing rebel seen as an authoritarian leader, is standing for re-election to a third term in November elections.
He is expected to win in the face of an increasingly fragmented opposition.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ortega-tightens-grip-nicaragua-032654178.html
Isn't Danny supposed to be one of the good, admirable leftists? I guess I need a turgid scolding from some LatAm internet scholar to clarify the situation for me.
