On the third anniversary of the coup, the resistance movement faces formidable obstacles in attempting to recreate the space for progressive politics which began to open up under Zelaya, but which led to his downfall. 

Attempts to claim electoral fraud this weekend in Nicaragua, by elements in the national press and in the US, were thwarted. They ignore significant social advances by the newly re-elected Daniel Ortega, argues John Perry. A version of this article was first published on the LRB blog