Nicaragua's husband-wife team ready to fall: end of the road for the Ortegas

Saturday, June 2nd 2018 - 08:09 UTC

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By Gwynne Dyer (*) - From the Ceausescus in Romania (overthrown and shot 1989) to the Mugabes (removed in a non-violent military coup 2017), husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a particularly high casualty rate. And now it may be the turn of the Nicaraguan team: President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo. Read full article

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O' Danny boy - the pipes, the pipes are calling - from Managua to Miami . . . .

Strange how the screw turns.

The poll is official open.

Dust off your crystal balls.

Ortega's fate is:

International NGO?

Prison?

Domestic veneration?

News commentary?

Bestselling author? Suggest possible titles if this is your choice.

Assassination?

Exile?

Poverty?

Riviera?

Cuba?

Venezuela?

Russia?
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