As 2018 came to a close, the Nicaraguan government entered a new phase in its efforts to destroy the protest movement against President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo that began in April.
Over the past two years, the Trump administrations participation at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has placed the U.S. alongside National Security Advisor John Bolton’s “troika of tyranny”—Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.