In Nicaragua, Economics Will Be the Left's Downfall

Political change comes slowly to Nicaragua. Nearly 27 years ago, the country's civil war ended with a truce. That war, which pitted the Contra movement, supported by the United States, against the Soviet-backed government of Nicaragua, concluded with a settlement in April 1990 to hold presidential elections every five years. Decades later, that commitment to regular political transition has not appreciably altered the underlying drivers or changed the key actors in Nicaraguan politics....