The Ortega Regime in Nicaragua Works Like the Mafia, Journalist Judith Flores Says.
Nicaragua has been in the news lately and not for good reasons. El American had the opportunity to sit down with Judith Flores, a journalist, digital editor for the Diario las Américas and columnist at La Gaceta (Spain). A native of Nicaragua, the very qualified investigative reporter, touched upon aspects of the systemic crisis currently under way in her country.
The past, as well as the present and the future, were part of the conversation that helped provide a better appreciation of what is happening in what once was the most prosperous country in Central America, prior to the initial Sandino-Communist takeover of power in 1979.
The absence of a transitional judicial process, following the initial Sandinista dictatorial reign (1979-1990) and the ensuing civil war for liberation carried out by the anti-communist freedom fighters, known as the “Contras” — considering the crimes against humanity and crimes of war that were committed by the Marxist regime — went unaccounted for.
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