Det langsomme kup i Nicaragua

Jeg har før blogget om det langsomme kup venstreradikale og korrupte politikere er i gang med at gennemføre mod Nicaraguas folkevalgte præsident. Her lidt mere fra New York Times:

Nicaragua has gone from real dictatorship to false democracy. There are regular elections, but the country is at risk of becoming like many of its neighbors, where the will of the people is thwarted because elected presidents are toppled in midterm.

In Nicaragua, two strongmen have stripped President Enrique Bolaños of most of his powers and have been threatening to have him impeached. Mr. Bolaños, a conservative and former businessman, is overmatched by these two figures, who are united mostly by self-interest. One is Arnoldo Alemán, a conservative former president who stole huge sums of money and was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003. But he was recently freed by a judiciary controlled by the second strongman, Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader, whose career seemed over just a few years ago.

At the time, Mr. Ortega's stepdaughter accused him of sexually abusing and raping her starting when she was 11. But the courts dismissed the charges under the statute of limitations, and Mr. Ortega regained enough strength to purge the Sandinista party of reformers and challengers. These two men control the Legislature, which has drastically reduced Mr. Bolaños's powers, while the Sandinistas control the courts and the electoral council.

Ortega som pædofil voldtægtsmand? Endnu et venstreorienteret ikon mister glansen.

Henrik