President Daniel Ortega has launched a brutal crackdown on his political opponents in Nicaragua, seeming to clear the field so he can run virtually unopposed in the November elections. From Managua, Nicaraguan analyst Mateo Jarquin talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the shrinking space for dissent in Nicaragua’s political landscape.
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