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Ortega Closes Door on Nicaraguan Elections | US News
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has shut down democracy by declaring no more elections, canceling the November 2027 vote and sealing the country’s fate under his iron grip. With a constitutional rewrite extending his term to six years, Ortega’s regime has erased the last vestiges of democratic process — prompting a furious U.S. response from Secretary Marco Rubio, who labeled the move a direct threat to national security and called for global unity against repression. While Washington has already slapped visa bans on 2,000 officials and branded Nicaragua a dictatorship, no new sanctions…
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