Sandinista leader on hunger strike against former Nicaraguan comrades

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‘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,’ writes Tim Rogers in the Miami Herald.

‘Dora María Téllez, 52, [formerly known as Comandante 2] 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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