Nicaragua’s ruling party has moved to scrap elections entirely, cementing Daniel Ortega’s two-decade grip on power as his inner-circle congress dismantles democratic checks. Since 2018’s violent protests, the regime has jailed dissenters, crushed civil society, and rewritten the constitution to eliminate opposition. The UN condemned the move as a betrayal of human rights, while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it authoritarianism — and warned the world not to normalize relations with a dictatorship that’s eroding democracy in the Americas. With elections now canceled and presidential terms extended, Nicaragua’s slide into autocracy shows what happens when power is unchecked.
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