Nicaragua’s tragic journey into dictatorship is the subject of a new book. The book contends that Nicaragua’s democracy has been betrayed. This article by Mauricio Caucino is published by Confidencial. Here is an excerpt:

From his unique perspective as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua from 2013 to 2019, Marcelo Valle Fonrouge has published a narrative of the traumatic Nicaraguan present.

Fonrouge was a privileged witness to the drama unleashed by the 2018 protests. In his new book, Democracy violated: Actions and Measures for Institutional Strengthening and the Protection of Human Rights in Nicaragua (2021), he reviews the principal points for the future of the Central American country, where – as he confesses – he feels both ties and mixed emotions.

In the book, Valle Fonrouge reviews one by one the principal features and actions of a country that up to a short time ago had been largely forgotten, eclipsed by Cuba and Venezuela. This is the Nicaragua of the matrimonial dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo.

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