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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 13 September 2018

NICARAGUA: Justice and democracy in Nicaragua - necessary steps for political change

Authoritarian regimes are typically defined by what separate them from democracies. Most often, they lack fundamental democratic attributes including protecting, enforcing, and promoting citizens’ rights, ensuring a separation and independence of powers in all branches of government, and supporting security forces that are accountable and loyal to a constitution, not a party. Human rights groups and think tanks such as the US-based Inter-American Dialogue argue that under the current Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has come to fit this definition almost to a tee.

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