Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced on Sunday that the country will no longer hold elections, preventing the opposition from competing for power and further cementing his authoritarian grip on the country.
"There will never be elections here again so that [the opposition] can try to seize the government, to seize power," Ortega said in front of thousands of state employees during an official ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, which first brought him into power.
