Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government set about painting as a historic democratic victory what many of the world’s democracies condemned as a sham election. icaragua’s supreme electoral council said that with nearly all the ballots counted, Mr Ortega had won more than 75% of the vote. The outcome was never in doubt after his government jailed seven of the leading potential opposition candidates, clearing the field for Mr Ortega to sweep to a fourth consecutive five-year term. With all government institutions firmly within Mr Ortega’s grasp and the opposition exiled, jailed or in hiding, the 75-year-old leader eroded what hope...