Yerling Aguilera

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Anti-government protesters pull down a statue emblematic of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in Managua, Nicaragua, on April 21, 2018. (Alfredo Zuniga/AP)

Since mid-April, massive anti-government protests have rocked Nicaraguan politics, threatening President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian regime. Ortega rose to prominence as the revolutionary leader of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), which overthrew the authoritarian Somoza family that had ruled the country since 1936. Ortega and the FSLN governed from Nicaragua’s 1979 revolution until 1990, and again since 2007.

Since returning to power, Ortega has used symbols from the revolution to help shore up his claim to be the legitimate ruler of a single-party state. But protesters are using those symbols in these three ways to undermine Ortega’s regime.

Ortega’s regime has taught generations of Nicaraguans about the revolution.…  Seguir leyendo »