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• U.S. silent as Ortega assaults democracy

  U.S. silent as Ortega assaults democracy

  In Nicaragua, a determined and autocratic President Daniel Ortega has weakened Nicaraguan institutions to extend his grip on power. He has manipulated elections, corrupted the courts and threatened opposition members with mob violence.

• GOP illogical

  GOP illogical

  According to Sen. Marco Rubio’s Jan 10 Other Views column, U.S. silent as Ortega assaults democracy, Mahmoud Amadinejad’s and Daniel Ortega’s “attacks on democracy” in Iran and Nicaragua, respectively, are Obama’s fault.

• Ortega unchained: Nicaragua heads for disaster

  Ortega unchained: Nicaragua heads for disaster

  As the word spread across the world last week that Libya’s weird and homicidal Moammar Gadhafi had breathed his last, the reactions ranged from somber relief to rapturous glee — except in Nicaragua, where President Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista party were plunged into grief by the demise of a longtime pal.

• OAS makes bad “error” in Nicaragua

  OAS makes bad “error” in Nicaragua

  What was most surprising about Nicaragua’s election on Sunday was not that President Daniel Ortega was reelected after a highly questionable electoral process, but that his victory got a seemingly unconditional blessing from 34-country Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza.