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Protests in Managua, 2018. Wikimedia Commons.
It could be said that brutal repression was precisely what brought the citizens out onto the streets. In order to examine the correlation between repression and the protests (in that order, and not the other way around), we must understand that the government deployed its coercive mechanisms in successive stages, both before and during the crisis, and that it "adjusted" them to the actual "operation theatre" (rural or urban).
