We've seen reports on Babalu about Nicaragua's problems. The latest is this:
The town of Masaya, about 15 miles south of the capital city of Managua, was a bastion of support for Ortega and his Sandinista rebels who overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979.This is more confirmation that Ortega has failed by governing with nothing but pompous cliches.
For the past few weeks, Masaya has been controlled by protesters, a warren of citizen-manned roadblocks and barricades, with city hall abandoned and police hunkered down in their barracks.
Those protest leaders now say they don't recognize Ortega's government, which they blame for the deaths of more than 200 people over the past two months.
Instead, a five-member "junta of national salvation" will govern Masaya, seeking to administer a city, including cleaning up trash and restocking food in a city of blocked streets.
"What we are doing is making it official," Yubrank Suazo, a coordinator of the protest movement in Masaya, said of the new governing commission.
"In fact, Masaya has not recognized this government for weeks."
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