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That would be true if Nicaragua were a truly democratic country with a separation of powers as opposed to a country whereby the President, under his party's flag, controls and mandates all facets of government in order to remain in power. When a country's leader is censuring and attacking the media when opposed to his mandate and is in the process of dismantling the democratic process, it is then up to world leaders to express themselves in an international forum which Mr. Johannes Cornelis van Baalen did.