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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 17 August 2018
NICARAGUA: Ortega forced to admit costs of crisis
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega this week revealed that he had sent the 92-member legislature a proposal to cut the 2018 state budget. The initiative was duly approved by the ruling Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), which controls the national assembly. It is the latest sign of the economic impact that the crisis stemming from the official crackdown on anti-government protesters, which began in mid-April has so far left some 450 people dead, is having on the country.
