{"id":739,"date":"2014-05-27T11:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T19:00:24","slug":"metamorphosis-of-ortega-into-somoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/metamorphosis-of-ortega-into-somoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis of Ortega into Somoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drdALrq-VW0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With each manipulation of the Nicaraguan constitution by Ortega and the Sandinista party, I feel a deep sadness for the impoverished country.  I am also dumbfounded at the short-sightedness of the ruling party and the ignorant avarice of Daniel Ortega who will not hand over the political reigns of the country to a new generation.   Prosperity has been illusive to this small country that has suffered a long-lasting dictatorship, natural disaster, a popular revolution and seemingly inherent political corruption.  If only a true leader would emerge who seeks an end to corruption and the engineering of a society striving for the well-being of all its people.  Unfortunately, since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/29\/nicaragua-presidential-term_n_4688979.html\" title=\"Huffington Post\" target=\"_blank\">Nicaraguan National Assembly elected to eliminate presidential term limits<\/a>, an end to poverty and corruption appears as distant as the worst period of the Somoza dynasty.  Ortega has effectively become Somoza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With each manipulation of the Nicaraguan constitution by Ortega and the Sandinista party, I feel a deep sadness for the impoverished country. I am also dumbfounded at the short-sightedness of the ruling party and the ignorant avarice of Daniel Ortega who will not hand over the political reigns of the country to a new generation. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,58,4,116],"tags":[771,98,99,106],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art-and-activism","category-net_art","category-politics","tag-animation","tag-nicaragua","tag-ortega","tag-somoza"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}