Nicaragua in ferment

Powerful opponents of the Ortega-Murillo family within the Sandinista party have been systematically weeded out of the government.

Protests have erupted in Nicaragua, with demonstrators calling on President Daniel Ortega to resign. So far, around 90 people have died and a thousand more have been injured amid the crackdown. Screenshot via Al Jazeera

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 31, 2018

From the Ceaușescus (overthrown and shot 1989) to the Mugabes (removed in a non-violent military coup 2017), husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a particularly high casualty rate. And now it may be the turn of the Nicaraguan team: President Daniel Ortega and his wife, ...

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