In June, Kitty Monterrey, president of the opposition Citizens for Freedom party, saw her candidate arrested.
In August, her party was dissolved and a few days later she learned on television that she had been stripped of her citizenship.
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Seeing myself exposed to deportation or prison, my only alternative was to leave the country irregularly and take refuge in Costa Rica"
, explains the salt and pepper-haired Nicaraguayan.
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Presidential elections will be held this Sunday in the country under the terror regime of President Daniel Ortega.
He will run for a fourth consecutive term after imprisoning the main presidential candidates and dozens of opponents, forcing the others into exile.
The former Sandinista National Liberation Front guerrilla fought against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, which fell in 1979. But according to many Nicaraguans, his regime's violence far exceeded that of the former executioner.
Since 2007 he
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