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Nicaragua Charges Ex-Beauty Queen Running For Election

August 7, 2021 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Nicaragua Charges Ex-Beauty Queen Running For Election
Nicaragua beauty queen Berenice Quezada

Daniel Ortega is installing a dictatorship in Nicaragua. Political competition exists but the system is hostile to opposition candidates. This article is published by Deutsche Welle. Here is an excerpt:

Nicaraguan prosecutors charged former beauty queen and opposition candidate for the presidential vote Berenice Quezada with inciting terrorism, the attorney general said Wednesday.  

Quezada was placed under house arrest a day earlier amid a crackdown against President Daniel Ortega’s opponents ahead of the November 7 election. 

The charges against Quezada relate to her participation in the 2018 anti-government protests, which Ortega’s regime had deemed a coup attempt. 

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