“An Election in Nicaragua That Could Further Dim Democracy Daniel Ortega Runs for His Fourth Consecutive Term as President of Nicaragua Virtually Uncontested, Having Imprisoned All His Political Rivals” ( Christian Science Monitor, 11/4/21).“Nicaraguan Business Leaders Arrested in Ortega’s Pre-Election Crackdown” ( Guardian, 10/22/21).“‘Everyone Is on the List’: Fear Grips Nicaragua as It Veers to Dictatorship” ( New York Times, 9/5/21).“We Are in This Nightmare’: Nicaragua Continues Its Brazen Crackdown” ( Guardian, 8/12/21).“Nicaragua Arrests Seventh Presidential Contender in November 7 vote” ( Independent, 7/24/21).“Human Rights Groups Have Eyes on Growing Crackdown UN, Other Organizations Fear Upcoming Elections Won’t Be Fair and Free” ( Toronto Star, 6/27/21).“Nicaragua’s Democracy Hangs by Thread as Crackdown Deepens” ( N ew York Times, 6/6/21).In the case of Nicaragua, 55 headlines alleged an unjustifiable crackdown. In the case of Ecuador, not a single headline alleged any kind of crackdown on opposition to the government. (By “enemy,” I mean a government that poses no threat to the U.S., but still gets hit with crippling sanctions, or worse, that it endures as best it can.)Ī search of the Nexis news database for the word “crackdown” in articles about Ecuador and Nicaragua in newspapers in the U.S., Canada, and the UK for a five-month period before the election in each country reveals a significant contrast between reporting on Nicaragua and Ecuador. Just by scanning headlines in Western media, as most readers do, it’s easy to tell which was a U.S. Ecuador’s elections took place in February, with the second round of its presidential election in April. Both Ecuador and Nicaragua elected a president and national assembly this year.

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