Nicaraguan rebel icon launches hunger strike – A former Sandinista guerrilla leader declared a hunger strike to protest what she calls the Nicaraguan government’s authoritarian shift. From: miamiherald.com
Tagged: Nicaragua, protestPosted on: June 9th, 2008
A veteran guerrilla leader who helped spark a revolution here 30 years ago is again putting her life on the line to protest a government she claims is returning Nicaragua to its dark, dictatorial past.
Dora María Téllez, 52, started a hunger strike this week, plopping down in downtown Managua to ”sound the alarm bell” against what she says are President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian intentions.
The former rebel leader and ex-minister of health under the first Sandinista government in the 1980s says her protest is a continuation of the revolutionary struggle she started three decades ago against the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship.”*
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