NICARAGUA: " The Sandinistas Control Everything!"

NYTIMES/
“I feel the whole world is backward, The Sandinistas control everything. What can I do?" asked an opposition judge recently.
President Daniel Ortega, a former rebel leader who was president during the 1980s, has overrun the opposition in his bid to maintain power. He has solidified his party’s control of the courts, the electoral tribunal and the police, and he has manipulated the system. Nicaragua’s Constitution bans consecutive terms and limits presidents to holding the office only twice. But Ortega’s backers have pushed for constitutional changes in Congress that would have allowed his re-election.