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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...
