It’s all to the good that newly inducted Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly joined with her counterparts in the United States and the United Kingdom this week in slapping new sanctions on the thug regime of Nicaraguan caudillo Daniel Ortega. The once-celebrated Sandinista leader has so completely betrayed the revolution he once led that Nicaraguans are being forced to endure a full-circle return to the excesses of the dictator Anastasio Somoza, the gangster-strongman Ortega and his comrades overthrew back in 1979. Read More
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