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...If you consider that [Nicaraguan authoritarian president Daniel] Ortega is a corrupt populist, then Lula is the absolutely equal expression of Ortega or of [Venezuelan president Nicolás] Maduro.”...
...Into the authoritarian camp would go Nicaragua’s Ortega, along with Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba — and probably conservatives such as Nayib Bukele of El Salvador and Alejandro...
...Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, currently under investigation by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity, is not expected to come....
...“Lula is in love with [Nicaragua president Daniel] Ortega, with [Venezuela president Nicolás] Maduro, with the late Fidel Castro, among other dictators,” said the far-right leader....
...“Lula is in love with [Nicaragua president Daniel] Ortega, with [Venezuela president Nicolás] Maduro, with the late Fidel Castro — among other dictators,” said the far-right leader....
...Three did not receive an invite: Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro were declared personae non gratae by a US government that regards them as dictators....
...What happened next was reminiscent of Nicaragua, where President Daniel Ortega imprisoned and disqualified his main opponents in the run-up to recent elections....
...A Cuban-trained doctor who was barred from running himself because of a corruption conviction, Cerrón was the author of a notorious manifesto that praised Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Hugo Chávez and Nicolás...
...Mr Saénz said Mr Ortega’s efforts appeared designed to replicate President Nicolás Maduro’s tactics in Venezuela and attempt to split the opposition....
...The party’s founder, Vladimir Cerrón, names Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Fidel and Raúl Castro in Cuba among a select “group of presidents who gave the continent...
...But spare a thought for Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s failed socialist state, where doctors struggle with no gloves, no soap and impossible pressures....
...Mr Guaidó defied a travel ban to venture abroad, hoping to rally support from western allies to topple the revolutionary socialist regime of Nicolás Maduro and end the corruption, repression and misrule...
...No formal mediation mechanism has yet been set up but the López Obrador administration has also offered itself as “a bridge of dialogue” in Venezuela, where President Nicolás Maduro has begun a widely repudiated...
...Mr Guaidó argues that as Mr Maduro is an illegitimate president, Mr Ortega is not the head of the central bank....
...The Ortega regime has sentenced three farm leaders to 550 years in prison for their roles in protests in 2018, where Ortega’s police forces reportedly killed 300 activists....
...Increasingly, authoritarians such as Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro are strangling their young democracies....
...Indeed, Evo Morales in Bolivia remains anchored to power; so does Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Dési Bouterse in Suriname, and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela....
...But price controls are, as economy minister Nicolás Dujovne admitted in a press briefing on Wednesday, popular with Argentines. They could go some way to lifting the national mood....
...The author's sons will be executive producers● The Venezuelan regime of Nicolás Maduro detained US freelance journalist Cody Weddle and then deported him....
...That has stoked fears that Mr Morales is taking Bolivia down the same path as Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro is presiding over an increasingly authoritarian regime....
...“Maduro has toughed out worse,” he added, referring to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. “Can Ortega do the same?”...
...Mr Ortega previously worked as vice-president of finance at Citgo, a US oil refiner owned by PDVSA....
...● Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro went into exile in Costa Rica because of “extreme threats” from rebel leader Daniel Ortega....
...That happened in Venezuela last year, when months of protests failed to dislodge the socialist government of President Nicolás Maduro....
...Leftist Latin American leaders Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Miguel Díaz-Canel of Cuba, deemed dictators by Mr Bolsonaro, were meanwhile disinvited....
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