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State Department rips revolutionary socialist Nicaraguan regime as far-left leader ends country's elections

Nicaragua's co-president is taking intense heat from the State Department after the socialist revolutionary declared that the Central American country he rules alongside his wife will no longer hold elections.The State Department on Tuesday condemned Daniel Ortega, who has retained power as the country's leader for nearly 20 years, writing his "declaration that under his family’s dictatorship Nicaragua will never again hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature and that, "Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have abandoned even the pretense of popular consent.""Rosario Murillo and D...