Breda O'Brien: Daly and Wallace equivocate over Nicaraguan regime

Mick Wallace and Clare Daly have spoken in defence of the Ortega regime in the European Parliament and their words will likely be used as propaganda in Nicaragua. Photograph: Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Simon Coveney, never yet accused of being a leftie, and Chile's President Gabriel Boric, described by Time Magazine as Chile's most left-wing president in 50 years, have a similar position on Nicaragua. Both have condemned the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ortega-Murillo regime. Coveney has called "unacceptable and alarming" the "human rights violations, crackdowns on opposition voices and independent media, and backsliding on democratic norms…