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. End of preview - This article contains approximately 1362 words.
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