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Nicaragua’s President Ortega moves to extend his 20-year rule and says no elections anytime soon | Associated Press
Source: Associated Press | 21 July 2026
[...] “Ortega and Murillo are evidently afraid at the idea that the slightest political opening could create the conditions for dissent to manifest and threaten their grip on power,” said Tiziano Breda, a senior Latin America analyst at independent conflict monitor ACLED.
“Instead of staging a rigged election, they have opted to eliminate electoral competition altogether,” he added. [...]
