#Nicaragua (abro hilo) @RyanBergPhD & @AEI deliver an all-encompassing analysis of the Nicaraguan crisis followed by hard-hitting recommendations for US policy-makers. (1/

Nicaragua: Escalating efforts against the Ortega-Murillo regime https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/restoring-democracy-in-nicaragua-escalating-efforts-against-the-ortega-murillo-regime/ via @AEI

... #Nicaragua - No one goes untouched in its culpability - starting w/ Ortega's crime syndicate masquerading as a legitimate government. Just as disturbing is what many, if not all, Nicaraguans know to be true of the complicit opposition and business elite...2/

... #Nicaragua - being more interested in their own personal & financial survival & success than in fighting for a free, prosperous and democratic Nicaragua. Yes, there are true & brave opposition figures that are not afforded the political stage. And, yes, it is true...3/

#Nicaragua - the corrupt & complicit opposition/business elite will NOT relinquish their relative power to those that Ortega truly fears. @RyanBergPhD hits the salient/powerful theme of sanctions as, IMO, the mechanism that can/will bring order/cohesion to the complicit...4/

#Nicaragua - opposition/business elite. @USTreasury #OFAC must wield sanctions targeting egregious @COSEPNicaragua @AmChamNicaragua members 4 their direct/indirect dealings w/ Ortega-Murillo, including carrying Ortega's water by lobbying US Reps/Senators in halting sanctions...5/

#Nicaragua - against the Nicaraguan Army, judiciary members and business leaders. #MasSancionesMasDemocracia is the best chance Nicaraguans have in bringing about the necessary electoral reforms, including voting for the DIASPORA and independent candidates running for office. 6/

#Nicaragua - Economic force is the only way to bring Ortega to the table in any meaningful way. Finally, to understand Nicaraguan politics is to understand to invisible hand that moves loyalties/interests & we must not be moved by suspect/disenfranchised Sandinistas aka #MRS...7/

#Nicaragua - members that have hijacked some of these civil society movements only to see them regain power and continue many, if not all, the failed Sandinista/Marxist policies of the lost decade of the 1980s. We must be vigilant. @RyanBergPhD amazing work!

PD: @TemplarioNIC @revoabril1904 @WhiteMacaca @DIASGLONIC @PlataMultUnidad @EloOM81 @98carlosvarmar @FloresJudith7 @Churchill201819 @edsmo2005 @catorceno14 @CarcamodrRafael @PaulBonicelli @pita_ricardo @vandalicoloco @RobertoZiga19 @Santiagoaburto8

PDD: En conclusión, desde que viví la tragedia del 2007/2008 en carne propia me da tristeza ver como siguen los mismos de siempre solo bajo diferentes organizaciones que se nutren tanto de la ayuda $$ de USAID, NDI, IRI, etc pero tb negocian su tajada con Ortega.

PDDD: Hasta q esto no pare no veo una salida pacífica en nuestra querida Nicaragua. Hoy más que nunca tenemos una gran oportunidad #NuevosLideresMejorDestino