Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is slipping back into a 1980s mindset, cracking down on opposition, amassing power and locking horns with the U.S. It’s “dictatorship lite,” said Adam Isacson, senior associate for regional security policy at the Washington Office on Latin America.
Just in the last few days, Ortega loyalists in the Supreme Court ordered the removal of 28 opposition lawmakers and the president named his wife as his running mate in November’s presidential election. Foreign observers are banned from the vote.
