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Democracy swims against the tide in authoritarian world


Democracy swims against the tide in authoritarian world
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The old Nicaraguan revolutionary, with his receding hairline and the goatee that he had finally let turn grey, spoke calmly into the camera as police swarmed toward his house, hidden behind a high wall in a leafy Managua neighborhood.
Decades earlier, Hugo Torres had been a guerrilla in the fight against dictator Anastasio Somoza. In 1974, he’d taken a group of top officials hostage, then traded them for the release of imprisoned comrades. Among them was Daniel Ortega, a Marxist bank robber who would eventually become Nicaragua’s authoritarian ruler. ....

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For democracy, it's a time of swimming against the tide


The old Nicaraguan revolutionary, with his receding hairline and the goatee that he had finally let turn grey, spoke calmly into the camera as police swarmed toward his house, hidden behind a high wall in a leafy Managua neighborhood. Surveillance drones, he said, were watching overhead.
Decades earlier, Hugo Torres had been a revered guerrilla in the fight against right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza. In 1974, he’d taken a group of top officials hostage, then traded them for the release of imprisoned comrades. Among those prisoners was Daniel Ortega, a Marxist bank robber who would become Nicaragua’s elected president and later its authoritarian ruler. ....

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Democracy swims against the tide in authoritarian world


Democracy swims against the tide in authoritarian world
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1of32FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2016 file photo, children swing in a park next to an election billboard for President Daniel Ortega and his running mate, his wife, Rosario Murillo in Managua, Nicaragua. In June 2021, amid a weekslong clampdown to obliterate nearly every hint of opposition, Ortega ordered the arrest of Hugo Torres, a revered guerrilla in the fight against right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza. In 1974, Torres had taken a group of top officials hostage, then traded them for the release of imprisoned comrades, among them, Daniel Ortega.Esteban Felix/APShow MoreShow Less ....

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