The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests
Despite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018–2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua’s historical and recent political...
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| description | Despite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018–2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua’s historical and recent political protests and explain the Ortega administration’s responses, thus providing a rich case (with comparative data for context) that makes sense of this extraordinary period of protest. The empirical analysis buttresses our qualitative case study of protest motivations and tactics and extreme state violence that define four phases of the conflict. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses creates one of the first robust studies of protest–response dynamics of this protest crisis. We conclude that these protests are unique with respect to previous protests in the country and the region and that government repression was a logical response in some phases but was inconsistently applied. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa0b1e3ecd4c40bc946b6203567794882022-12-22T00:04:26ZengSAGE PublishingJournal of Politics in Latin America1866-802X1868-48902022-04-011410.1177/1866802X211024246The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to ProtestsGraig R. Klein0José Cuesta1Cristian Chagalj2 Institute of Security & Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, Netherlands Georgetown McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia, USA Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaDespite constant monitoring, we lack a good explanation for the 2018–2019 protest crisis in Nicaragua. The escalation of protests, repression, duration, and the death toll are surprising. Applying a novel political and economic cost framework, we benchmark Nicaragua’s historical and recent political protests and explain the Ortega administration’s responses, thus providing a rich case (with comparative data for context) that makes sense of this extraordinary period of protest. The empirical analysis buttresses our qualitative case study of protest motivations and tactics and extreme state violence that define four phases of the conflict. The combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses creates one of the first robust studies of protest–response dynamics of this protest crisis. We conclude that these protests are unique with respect to previous protests in the country and the region and that government repression was a logical response in some phases but was inconsistently applied.https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X211024246 |
| spellingShingle | Graig R. Klein José Cuesta Cristian Chagalj The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests Journal of Politics in Latin America |
| title | The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests |
| title_full | The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests |
| title_short | The Nicaragua Protest Crisis in 2018–2019: Assessing the Logic of Government Responses to Protests |
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