With turmoil at home, more Nicaraguans flee to the U.S.
By GISELA SALOMON and CLAUDIA TORRENS, Associated Press
Published: July 29, 2021, 4:45pm
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Alan Reyes Picado poses outside his home, as his niece looks on from behind, in San Francisco, California, Friday, July 9, 2021. Reyes arrived in the United States in Feb. 2021, after receiving death threats in Nicaragua and is asking for asylum. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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MIAMI — Alan Reyes Picado fled Nicaragua by bus in the middle of the night, haunted by memories of government officials harassing him, throwing him in jail and then leaving him half naked in a dumpster.