Sandinistas crush Nicaragua’s independent journalism
The Sandinista couple-dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, respectively president and vice-president of Nicaragua, have unleashed a new repressive wave crushing democratic rights and freedom of the press like never before.
Liberty of expression is the oxygen of democratic arrangements. As journalists exercise their craft independently and unencumbered, they are canaries in the political coal mine. By this gauge, Nicaragua’s polity is being asphyxiated into totalitarianism.
The Sandinista couple-dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo (pictured above), respective…
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