{"id":66311,"date":"2026-07-21T18:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=66311"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:52:17","slug":"nicaragua-as-a-warning-when-communism-comes-to-power-democracy-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/07\/21\/nicaragua-as-a-warning-when-communism-comes-to-power-democracy-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua as a warning: when communism comes to power, democracy disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History repeats itself, because many chosen to systematically ignore the facts of the greatest totalitarian movement of the last century.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/01\/nicaragua-four-years-of-banning-holy-week-without-any-condemnation-from-pedro-sanchez\/\">Nicaragua: Four years of banning Holy Week without any condemnation from Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/nicaragua-a-new-communist-persecution-to-christians-and-two-scandalous-silences\/\">Nicaragua: a new communist persecution to Christians and two scandalous silences<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/es\/mundo\/news\/2026-07\/nicaragua-ortega-se-blinda-en-el-poder-no-mas-elecciones.html\" target=\"_blank\">the communist dictator Daniel Ortega openly announced that there will be no more elections in Nicaragua<\/a>. Thus, <strong>communism now has a new one-party regime<\/strong>, in this case with the dubious name of the \"Sandinista National Liberation Front,\" a \"liberation\" that consists of abolishing democracy and freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obviously, Nicaragua did not become a dictatorship overnight.<\/strong> Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007 and has since dedicated himself to degrading Nicaraguan democracy to prevent free elections from taking place in the country. <strong>Ortega clearly demonstrated his authoritarian tendencies as early as 2018<\/strong>, when <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180711192948\/https:\/\/www.laprensa.com.ni\/2018\/07\/11\/nacionales\/2447044-asesinados-por-la-represion-en-nicaragua-aumentan-a-351-segun-informe-de-la-anpdh\" target=\"_blank\">his regime murdered hundreds of people to suppress student protests in the country<\/a>. Since then, his dictatorship\u2014because in fact it already was one\u2014has unleashed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/12\/nicaragua-a-new-communist-persecution-to-christians-and-two-scandalous-silences\/\">a harsh anti-Catholic persecution<\/a> that has even led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/01\/nicaragua-four-years-of-banning-holy-week-without-any-condemnation-from-pedro-sanchez\/\">the prohibition of Holy Week<\/a>, a religious festival deeply rooted in that Central American country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, <strong>Ortega's regime has been systematically whitewashed by media outlets in various countries that avoid calling it a \"dictatorship\" and \"far-left,\"<\/strong> simply because it is a far-left dictatorship. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/15\/efe-calls-kast-and-milei-far-right-but-does-not-call-three-dictators-far-left\/\">This is the case with the EFE news agency, controlled by the government of Pedro S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, coincidentally the only government in the European Union with communist ministers.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/04\/12\/communist-dictatorships-established-in-the-world-from-1917-to-the-present\/\">since 1917, communism has established more than fifty dictatorships worldwide<\/a>. <strong>Nicaragua is already suffering its second<\/strong>, as Sandinista communism previously held power through a dictatorship, also under Daniel Ortega, between 1979 and 1990. <strong>Currently, communist dictatorships control one-fifth of humanity<\/strong>, specifically the inhabitants of mainland China, North Korea, Cuba, Eritrea, Laos, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Vietnam. Despite being totalitarian regimes, <strong>none of these countries has been expelled from the UN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, reminded us today, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HillelNeuer\/status\/2079342486556701159\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaragua currently chairs the committee that oversees the work of all UN-accredited human rights NGOs<\/a>. For those who don't understand what this means, let me simply say that <strong>the UN has entrusted a dictatorship with overseeing the work of organizations dedicated to protecting human rights<\/strong>. It is utterly grotesque.<\/p>\n<p>What happened in Nicaragua should serve as a warning to the world: <strong>when communism comes to power, democracy disappears<\/strong>. In fact, it is absurd that there are still democratic countries that tolerate the existence of totalitarian parties that seek to destroy democracy from within, including communist parties. <strong>The example of Nicaragua is yet another reason to demand that communist parties be outlawed in democratic countries.<\/strong> Democracy cannot accommodate those who seek to destroy it, those who seek to eliminate freedom and establish <strong>one-party regimes that, as history shows, have become notorious violators of human rights<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: AFP.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History repeats itself, because many chosen to systematically ignore the facts of the greatest totalitarian movement of the last century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11471],"tags":[10444,4671,4670,27472,17182,10473],"class_list":["post-66311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hispanicity","tag-communism","tag-daniel-ortega","tag-nicaragua","tag-sandinism","tag-sandinista-national-liberation-front","tag-united-nations"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 23:13:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}