A new United Nations report details a Nicaragua tightly in the grasp of co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo, where the legislative and judicial branches answer to the executive and basic human rights protections are gone.
Little of that will come as a surprise to the tens of thousands of Nicaraguans who have the fled country in recent years, but the report of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights discusses the Central American country’s continuing deterioration in the starkest terms.
