Sandinista Ortega bleeds Nicaragua. The US: “He is a dictator”

LAWS and handcuffs. The hard hand of the police and the closures of newspapers. The censorship of all forms of dissent and the arrests of those who aspire to power. Nicaragua is the latest South American democratic emergency. Its president, former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega, is preparing for his fifth term, third in a row, using terror. He cleans up potential competitors, accuses them of very serious crimes, all included in the penal code thanks to the judiciary, which dominates with his men, and the endorsement of a Parliament that controls with the loyalists.