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Caribbean & Central America - July 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)
NICARAGUA: New police law approved
Last month Nicaragua’s national assembly, which is controlled by President Daniel Ortega’s ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), approved a new police law which crucially makes the head of the police force directly answerable to the president. The new legislation, which replaces the 1998 police law, follows a military reform approved in January 2014 which strengthened Ortega’s control over the military [RC-14-02]. Dissident Sandinista legislator, Víctor Hugo Tinoco, was quick to point out that this was the first time the military and the police had been placed under the direct orders of the president since the Somoza dictatorship was overthrown in 1979.
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