Such a case is Gioconda Belli, born in Managua, Nicaragua. A poet, novelist, and essayist, Belli participated at a young age in the Sandinista revolutionary movement that overthrew the dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, putting an end to the multi-year Somoza family dictatorship (1936-79). Why has President Ortega chosen this specific juncture to implement a definitive ban on democratic elections? We are witnessing the final legal burial of democracy in Nicaragua. Is this structural shift widely interpreted as the formal transformation of an authoritarian regime into a dynastic family dictatorship?