Summary
Nicaragua’s legislature has amended the constitution to give President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, “absolute power,” officially naming her “co-president” and consolidating control over all state branches.
The reform extends presidential terms from five to six years and tightens control over media, the Church, and political opponents.
Critics, including the UN, warn this dismantles democracy and entrenches dictatorship.
The government has already jailed dissidents, exiled critics, and revoked citizenship from opponents, sparking global condemnation.
Sounds like a Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos situation.
Oh, good. Banger of a year this 2025, really enjoying the unending amounts of despair so far
Judging by the picture: Is the wife trying to find an emperor that turned into a llama?
A llama? He’s supposed to be DEAD!
Man I’m Nicaraguan, I’ve lived abroad for a while now in Europe and I find it hilarious that everyone instantly associates her with yzma when I show pictures of them two just like all Nicaraguans do xD
As another curiosity there’s a church in Nicaragua that has a painting from the early 20th century where the devil appears and he literally looks like Ortega, I guess them two are a perfect match
His wife too? How inclusive.
What an interesting history Ortega has. I remember him most from his first dictatorship, when he was a leftist. Now he’s right-wing.
Either way, a dictatorship is a dictatorship.
I’m a little impressed by the heel turn of someone who literally fought a civil war against the right wing going to the right after taking power
Weird that they would extend terms but only by 1 year. If you’re already giving yourself total power and will presumably keep extending the term limits, why not just remove then entirely? Or at least make it 10 years or something?
Because this way they can say, “this will only last a year.” Similar to “dictator on day one only.”
