Sandinistas Crushing Nicaragua’s Journalists

An ice cream vendor walks by a mobile health clinic displaying a picture of Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (R) and his wife Vice President Rosario Murillo (R) in Managua on April 14, 2020. INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Liberty of expression is the oxygen of democratic arrangements. As journalists exercise their craft independently and unencumbered, they are canaries in the political coal mine. By this gauge, if left untreated Nicaragua’s polity is being asphyxiated into totalitarianism.