Exiled Nicaraguan opposition leader sees dwindling options for democracy [Video]

FILE – Opposition leader and former Nicaragua presidential candidate Felix Maradiaga, talks to reporters after arriving from Nicaragua at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, after some inmates considered by many to be political prisoners of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrived in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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By Giovanna Dell’orto The Associated Press

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A clandestine opposition movement remains active in Nicaragua, but options for restoring democracy in the Central American country are dwindling, former presidential challenger and political prisoner Félix Maradiaga told The Associated Press from his forced exile in the United States.

“The options are increasingly limited because the Sandinista dictatorship has radicalized,” the 48-year-old academic said in an interview in the Miami suburb of Doral. “One can’t ask the people who already sacrificed enormously, who had killings, who had exiles or …

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