The deteriorating economy is weakening Ortega. The government spends $10 million a day on payroll and maintenance, an unsustainable sum at a time when the crisis has sapped tax revenue. The economy is already operating at two-thirds or even half capacity. The multiplier effect of that slowdown is already dire.
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