Name: Nicaragua’s Ortega Announces Ban on Elections: Former Opposition Leader and Political Prisoner Reacts
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Description: Former Nicaraguan opposition leader and political prisoner, Félix Maradiaga, who is now a professor of global democracy at the University of Virginia, joins Tiffany Meier after Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega declared the country would no longer hold elections.

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Former Nicaraguan opposition leader and political prisoner, Félix Maradiaga, who is now a professor of global democracy at the University of Virginia, joins Tiffany Meier after Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega declared the country would no longer hold elections.

Maradiaga describes the regime’s systematic repression of independent media, religious freedom, and universities, and urges the United States and Europe to use diplomatic and financial pressure to push for a democratic transition, calling this a moment of hope for the Nicaraguan people.

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