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Ortega: Once and Future Presidente

Sixteen years after he was forced from office, Daniel Ortega looks likely to win Nicaragua's presidential election and Washington has threatened to withhold aid if the Sandinista leader, and former Marxist revolutionary, takes office.

Guests:

Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue

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Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan poet and author of The Scroll of Seduction

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