A man carries a portrait of President Daniel Ortega during a pro-government march in Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 11, 2023.

In Nicaragua, the steady dismantling of democracy by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has been advancing for many years. But in the past couple of weeks, the Ortega-Murillo regime took control of the country’s Supreme Court, a dramatic move that arguably crossed the line into dictatorship.