Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks next to first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo during the inauguration ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua in 2019. Experts expect that his reelection will thrust the country into deeper international isolation, worsen its economic crisis and swell its soaring number of refugees. “They are deeply compromised in that all the major opposition leaders are in jail,” said Cynthia Arnson, the director of the Latin American Program at the Wilson Center. He served as president in the 1980s before his party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, suffered a stunning defeat in 1990. Opposition leaders say that they need to find a strategy that takes into account how much of the opposition is dispersed outside the country.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 07, 2021 02:19 UTC