Nicaraguan President Ortega Expected to Win Re-Election as Country Veers Into Dictatorship

Nicaraguans forged ballots Sunday in an election whose end result the opposition says is preordained: President Daniel Ortega is envisioned to get an too much to handle majority, completing his transformation into a twenty first century edition of the dynastic dictator he helped overthrow as a guerrilla groundbreaking extra than 40 many years ago.

Mr. Ortega, seventy five, who is jogging with his spouse, Vice President Rosario Murillo, is envisioned to get a fourth consecutive phrase just after he imprisoned 7 would-be presidential candidates and 32 other major businessmen, journalists, political foes, student and peasant leaders. The U.S. and European Union have described the elections as a sham.