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The Death of Municipal Autonomy in Nicaragua

Why does the same person who signed the restoration of municipal autonomy in 1987 now endorse its abolition?

The dictator sent a proposed law to regulate the functioning of international organizations, cooperation agencies, and diplomatic missions.

Pardons given to 51,000 common criminals over ten years have cost the lives of at least 10 women, who fell victim to the released aggressors.

History runs its course, but in the end, Murillo’s Constitution will be repudiated, just like its creators, and they will not be eternal.

Reform eliminates municipal autonomy, suppresses the independence of state powers, and fully subordinates the Army and Police.

Rivera’s case had been classified as “forced disappearance”, since there’d been no indication of his whereabouts since September 2023.

Dictatorship orders the reform of over 100 articles of the Nicaraguan Constitution, including extending the presidential term to six years.

Ortega threatens fines, sanctions, and temporary or permanent suspension of operations for those enforcing foreign sanctions.

The prisoners were jailed for protesting the highly contested official election results in July.

Elsbeth D’Anda, who hosts a television program on Nicaragua’s Channel 23, has been in police custody since October 27.