Posted on 01/14/2025 9:44:49 PM PST by edwinland
n Monday, Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) initiated an overhaul of the country’s constitution that will codify the rule of longtime dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, as “co-presidents.” The reform follows an escalating campaign of persecution against the Catholic Church, the last bastion of opposition against the Ortegas, who nonetheless claim that their regime is a beacon of “Christian socialism.” Days prior, they had celebrated the New Year by expelling all Catholic nuns from the country. Nicaragua’s attacks on the Church and broader descent into tyranny culminates the stunning fall from grace of an erstwhile icon of revolutionary politics. ...
Ironically, it was the FSLN that brought democracy to Nicaragua. The party agreed to hold regular elections, and then-junta leader Daniel Ortega was elected in 1984. Six years later, an opposition alliance led by Violeta Chamorro defeated the FSLN, and Ortega handed power over peacefully. Out of office, Ortega evidently resolved to never again heed his own prior example. There has been no free election in Nicaragua since he returned to office in 2006.
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By 2016, little doubt remained that the former guerrilla was hell-bent on installing his own familial autocracy. That year, Ortega claimed to have won a preposterous 72 percent of the vote amid accusations of fraud, voter intimidation, and the expulsion of 16 opposition members of congress. Harking back to the family dictatorship of the Somozas, the FSLN also nominated Ortega’s wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president. Since the mid-2010s, the now 79-year-old Ortega has grown increasingly reclusive, with Murillo assuming public duties.
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All marxist entities seem to put their nations through such “cultural revolutions.”
They’ll end up making the Church stronger.
“Christian-Socialist” = “Christian-Fascist”
Exactly.
Indeed.
Bernie Sanders was a big admirer of Daniel Ortega back in the day.
Birds of a feather.
It’s a commie hellhole - he’s using Christianity as a horse to ride, not as a belief system.
From the turn of the 20th Century when Nicaragua tried to compete with Panama with regard to an inter-ocean canal to the present day, Nicaragua has been a political basket case. Its fractiousness led to the emplacing of U.S. Marines for years. Then when pulled the country was ruled by a dictatorship. It is one of those so-called nations, Afghanistan comes to mind civilizationally speaking, whose disappearance would never be missed.
I don’t believe there is anything called a Christian socialist.
Jimmuh Cahtah approves
Hitler did the same.
And it was easy to turn the people against the religion who killed their Savior.
Eventually he and his wife will die.
Time for them to get the “Ceausescu Treatment”.
He’s as “Christian” as the “Reverend” Jim Jones.
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