https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/07/world/americas/nicaragua-election-ortega.html

    • BojanglerGTX [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is probably the best I can do:

      https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-05/daniel-ortega-nicaragua-election

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/nicaraguan-exiles-election-daniel-ortega-dictatorship-rosario-murillo

      can't vouch for this subreddit, but maybe they can give better sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/frombelownicaragua/comments/qp0pj3/leftist_resources_on_nicaragua/

      https://www.rt.com/news/539633-nicaragua-election-biden-ortega/

      https://theconversation.com/nicaragua-former-revolutionary-daniel-ortega-now-resembles-the-dictator-he-helped-overthrow-171235

      I've been wanting to do a more advanced research project on the subject for a long time now, but I haven't had the free time for it. Usually what happens is that US media sources parrot a single fact (a mostly true, unpolitical fact), with almost no information, some "tankie" types blindly defend Ortega because they remember that one time something happened in the 80s, then breitbart runs a virtue signal headline calling Ortega socialist, but basically zero socialists actually have anything to say about him on the English speaking internet, in regards to anything that's happened in the last 5 years.

      But the simple truth is that Ortega implemented austerity measures in 2018, killed protestors over it, and things are kind of getting worse. Most people talking about "socialism" or "imperialism" or "color revolutions" are overpoliticizing Ortega just being a dictator and bad person.