From liberator to dictator: Nicaragua’s Ortega says no more elections
by editors@theworld.org (Joshua Coe) from The World: Latest Stories on (#774Z5)
Sunday marked 47 years since the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) toppled Nicaragua's dictatorship. To mark the occasion, the former leader of that guerrilla movement and now president of the country, 80-year-old Daniel Ortega, announced the country would no longer hold elections. To understand how Ortega got here and where things are headed for Nicaragua, The World's Host Marco Werman spoke to Cindy Regidor, a Nicaraguan journalist based in Costa Rica.