Nicaragua bajo el terror de la pareja Ortega-Murillo: antecedentes y construcción progresiva de una dictadura

• Main Author: Delphine Lacombe
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos 2020-01-01
• Series: Trace
• Subjects: Nicaragua; Sandinism; Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo; Repression; dictatorship.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/trace/5078

On April 18th 2018, Nicaragua plunged into one of the most tragic political and social crises of its contemporary history. Following a presidential decree reforming the Social Security Institute that reduced pension benefits while raising contributions, a wave of protest spread across the country. This wave became a civic insurrection demanding the president’s resignation and early elections and it was repressed with the utmost violence. This article summarizes the predictors and reasons for this political crisis. It finally questions the delayed reaction of international public opinion toward the progressive building of dictatorial power in Nicaragua, begun as early as 2007.