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In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx referred to the Napoleonic return to power in the French coup of 1851 as “first as tragedy, then as farce.” There could be no more fitting a characterization of the saga of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega's conversion — in about as many years as had lapsed from the fall of the first Napoleon Bonaparte to the coup carried out by his nephew Louis —from a socialist revolutionary to a repressive and corrupt petty dictator.
Corruption is undermining Nicaragua's democracy and draining itseconomy. Corrupt opponents are threatening to reverse PresidentBolaños' campaign against public theft. The United Statesand its allies should help Nicaragua to end this parasitic plagueand renew progress toward self-sufficiency.