Nicaragua’s Shift Toward Dictatorship Is Part of a Latin American Backslide

Nicaragua, pursuing a presidential election identified as fraudulent by the U.S., is now commonly witnessed to have come to be Latin America’s 3rd dictatorship and part of a broader craze of democratic backsliding across the location, say U.S. officials and political analysts.

President Daniel Ortega coasted to a fourth consecutive time period in Sunday’s vote by profitable about 75% of the ballots forged, according to Nicaragua’s election authority. The election took location following Mr. Ortega’s routine jailed seven leading presidential candidates, enabling only a handful of comparatively unidentified candidates to oppose him.