Nicaragua, July 2019: Ortega’s hold on power remains strong
Dialogue with the Civic Alliance is currently frozen while murders rise
Dialogue in Nicaragua is once again frozen.
The Civic Alliance proposed returning to negotiations on 31 July. They left the dialogue on 20 May after Eddy Montes, who was arrested in the 2018 protests and held in La Modelo Prison, was killed. After the high-profile death of Montes, Ortega released additional political prisoners in an attempt to demonstra…