From VOA Spanish: What changes to Nicaragua's Constitution give more power to President Ortega and his wife?
The government of Daniel Ortega, who has been president for more than 15 consecutive years, recently promoted constitutional ...
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Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife Nicaragua’s ‘co-presidents’
Nicaragua’s president Daniel Ortega has proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current ...
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Ortega's Power Grab: Why Trump Is A Glimmer Of Hope For Nicaragua's Opposition
As Nicaragua's weakened opponents expend themselves in jail or exile or in rivalries, communist strongman Daniel Ortega has amended the constitution yet again, to lock himself and his family into ...
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Nicaraguan lawmakers approve reform expanding Ortega’s power
The Nicaraguan parliament, dominated by the ruling Sandinista Front, on Friday approved a constitutional reform that hands ...
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Nicaragua’s Ortega and Murillo consolidate their power over the army and the police
The reform of the Military Code and the National Police Law subordinate the armed forces to the presidential couple’s wishes, ...
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Nicaragua's Ortega seeks to expand presidential powers
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega proposed a constitutional reform to expand presidential powers over other branches of ...
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Nicaragua opens the door for Russian troops to land in Central America
The report also pointed out President Daniel Ortega had authorized the entry of foreign military troops, ships, and aircraft for humanitarian purposes after extending an invitation to the Vladimir ...
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Stripped of citizenship, these Nicaraguans live in limbo scattered across the world
GUATEMALA CITY — Sergio Mena's life dissolved in hours. After years resisting President Daniel Ortega, the rural activist fled Nicaragua in 2018, joining thousands of protesters fleeing a ...
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Nicaragua's Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife 'copresidents'
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is proposing a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current ...
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Nicaraguan court hands down prison sentences to two women opposing Ortega
was detained before the fifth anniversary of the demonstrations against the government of President Daniel Ortega. In August 2018, in the context of the anti-government protests, the police ...
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Under Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has become a one-party state
Some would say one-family. The election tops off years of creeping authoritarianism in the country, which is run by President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla, and Rosario Murillo ...
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Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes reform to make him and his wife ‘copresidents’
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega on Wednesday proposed a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo ...