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Sep 2021
22m 58s

Carlos Fernando Chamorro: Exiled from Ni...

Bbc World Service
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Stephen Sackur speaks to Nicaraguan journalist and former revolutionary Carlos Fernando Chamorro. He is currently in exile as President Daniel Ortega intensifies his crackdown on dissent. Why has the country slumped back into authoritarianism?

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