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Security & Strategic Review - January 2025
NICARAGUA: Consolidating absolute power
“An historic step backwards”. This was the assessment in early December by no less than 25 former Latin American leaders of a package of constitutional reforms unveiled the previous month by Nicaragua’s authoritarian President Daniel Ortega. With United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Türk also warning that the reforms signal “the death knell for fundamental freedoms and rule of law in Nicaragua”, the reform package has, along with other recent legislative initiatives, sparked further concerns that Ortega is seeking to consolidate absolute control.
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