Five years since a crackdown began, what's next for Nicaragua? | Inside Story |
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Daniel Ortega is one of Latin America’s great political survivors.
The leftist guerrilla leader toppled a right-wing US-backed regime in 1979, returning as president in 2007 after a previous term. A crackdown followed demonstrations five years ago. Ortega has since moved closer to China and Russia. So what is next for Nicaragua? Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault Guests: Ben Norton - investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report. Astrid Montealegre - supervising attorney for the Nicaraguan American Human Rights Alliance in Los Angeles. Dan Kovalik - a human rights lawyer and author of 'Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance'. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ #Nicaragua #DanielOrtega #NicaraguaCrackdown #InsideStory |