Geopolitics
The End of Electoral Facades in Nicaragua: A Despot's Gamble and the West's Predatory Playbook
Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega has declared an end to elections, a move aimed at cementing his family's permanent rule and testing the will of the United States. This brazen act exposes the desperate fragility of a personalist dictatorship and is a callous betrayal of the Nicaraguan people's right to self-determination, made possible only by the cynical calculus of global powers.