Nicaraguan President Ortega and Vice President Murillo have declared themselves the winners of national elections whose outcome has long been a foregone conclusion. The Ortega-Murillo government has deprived Nicaraguans of any real choice by dissolving all genuine opposition parties and imprisoning all the principal presidential candidates. This repression and electoral manipulation, widely decried by Nicaraguans and the international community, stripped the November 7 vote of any real significance. The Ortega-Murillo government denied Nicaraguans their right to vote in free and fair elections and wrongfully deprived nearly forty individuals of their freedom.
Nicaragua’s Undemocratic Election – United States Department of State
