And what Is the role of the youth?

Generational turnover in Nicaragua faces a fundamental dilemma: organizations and faces change, but the political practices that have sustained caudillismo for decades remain intact.

By Cristian Mendez (100% Noticias)

HAVANA TIMES – Caudillismo (the strongman) has been a constant in Nicaragua’s political history. It is not an accident or a recent anomaly; it is a way of exercising power that has been reproduced under different names, colors, and ideologies. Today it is expressed brutally in the Ortega–Murillo dictatorship, but to say that the problem lies only with the dictators would be a mistake. Authoritarianism does not survive solely because of who governs, but because of a political system that concentrates power and promotes this kind of behavior. We personalize it and make it almost impossible to control.

A problem that is rarely discussed honestly is that caudillismo is not only present in the regime; it has also seeped into sectors of the opposition. There is still a search for “leaders,” singular figures who embody the hope for change, while fundamental debates about how to prevent power from once again being concentrated in a........

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