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Exiled

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In 1979 the Sandinista revolution came to power in Nicaragua.

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Four years later, Daniel Ortega became the leader of the sandinistas and
President of Nicaragua until 1990. Later was reelected as a congressman.

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Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo is his stepdaughter.

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Wake him up, Luna.

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Wake him up, Luna.

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Two minutes.

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Alright, two minutes.

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I have three children:

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Carolina, Alex and Giordano,
who is with me in Costa Rica.

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My older children saw
how they impeded me from working.

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We were always being followed.

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Our exile from Nicaragua has
been very difficult for Giordano.

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We were forced to leave
and cannot go back.

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I had to explain him that my
stepfather did very ugly things

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and my mother didn\'t believe me.

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And his question was:
\"Why didn\'t your mother believe you?\"

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\"You didn\'t scream loud enough\"?

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He was regarded as someone
with especial attributes.

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People felt great admiration for him.

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He was a god.
All-powerful.

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He moved in with my
mother in 1977 or 1978.

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He arrived in our home and
soon after the sexual abuse began.

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Please, let the secretary through.

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I am proceeding
with criminal charges

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for sexual abuse,
rape and sexual harassment.

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This accusation entails many risks
but I am willing to take them on.

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Analysts believe this accusation
is unlikely to make it to trial

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because of Daniel Ortega\'s
parliamentary immunity.

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This issue makes us
feel pain and sadness.

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We feel outrage at the
attempt to manipulate this situation.

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For us this is a family issue.
We feel pain and commotion within our family.

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ROSARIO MURILLO
Zoilamérica’s mother.

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The accusation is politically motivated,
because the father in this family

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made a commitment to
this country since the age of 14.

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Daniel Ortega has not responded.
Others have spoken for him.

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The party spoke for him.

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I was always
told to remain silent

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because the Sandinista
party came first,

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because the symbol
of the revolution came first.

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Long live the
president of the poor!

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Which is the scar
that hurts the most?

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The hardest part has
been loosing my mother.

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Rosario said she wanted
to ask the people for forgiveness

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because she gave
birth to a daughter

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who betrayed the
principles of the Sandinista party.

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I pledge that we will keep fighting
in any place and any terrain.

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In 2001, Daniel Ortega renounced
his parliamentary immunity and finally went on trial.
The defense argued the statute of limitations had expired
and the charges were dismissed after two days.

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He was reelected president in 2006 and 2011
after eliminating term limits from the Constitution.

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After years of political persecution,
Zoilamérica was forced to leave the country in 2014.

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Mom.

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Could you help me?
-Coming.

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There is a big difference in saying
a few billion cells and explaining how cells work.

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But look, here it says:

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Mention two ways nanobots
can improve human health.

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Remove cholesterol from the walls of
arteries and go inside the human body.

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He said it was wrong
and said and do what?

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Of course.

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He is not asking what they do.
He is asking to say what they are.

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No, he is asking you
how it improves health

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not how it moves.
You are right.

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Another thing.
-What?

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No, nothing.

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Ok, finish.
Finish quickly.

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Daniel was the revolution.

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He would tell me
\"I am the revolution\".

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Therefore, my accusation was
made to be a threat to the revolution.

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When in fact I denounced a man
who used his power to sexually abuse a young girl.

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I ran over to her playfully,
curious to know what she wanted.

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I sat on the bed with my yogurt.

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Ready to find out what she wanted.

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She said:
\"I want you to stop destroying my life.\"

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Stop letting Daniel do things to you.

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\"He is sick.\"

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\"But you are taking
advantage of a sick man.\"

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I only remember

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the yogurt coming
apart in my mouth

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as if it had turned into rocks.

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It was something strange.

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I was 12 years old.

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38th ANNIVERSARY OF THE REVOLUTION
Managua, Nicaragua

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Working for the well being
of everyone.

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The prosperity, joy, security
and happiness of all nicaraguan families.

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Who remained loyal to our principles?

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Who remained loyal
to our heroes and martyrs?

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Brothers, I want to underscore
Rosario\'s loyalty.

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The moment when my mother
decides to deny and reject me

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to avoid her responsibility
for my history of sexual abuse

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is when she becomes aware of the
pain of being married to a pedophile.

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To have 8 children
with this person

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without the will to give up
power to recognize it.

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But the worst part came later.

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Both sealed an alliance to cover up
what happened for their own benefit.

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After Ortega returned to power in 2006,
Rosario Murillo became the communications director for the president
and the second most powerful person in the government.

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Honorable magistrates
of the Supreme Electoral Council.

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August 2016
Day of campaign launch

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As the legal representative of the
alliance of the Sandinista Front

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I come before you to present

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Jose Daniel Ortega Saavedra
as candidate for president

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and Rosario Maria Murillo Zambrana
as candidate for vice president.

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Mom!

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Mom!

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Give me a second.
I will be right there.

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I am watching
something on the computer.

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I will be there soon.

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Denis knows what to do.
Give me 20 minutes, Ok?

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Make sure we believe
in ourselves more.

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Let\'s believe more in our...

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Enough!

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Ok, let\'s go.

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I want to change places.

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Ok, let\'s do it!

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Four corners?

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Yes.

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One.

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Four.

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Five.

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No, five no.

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Twelve.

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Denis and I are tied.

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Two.

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Mom, I don\'t have a single one.

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You are out.

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You have ten. Put it there.

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This is it. You are out. Bye!

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My popcorn.

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Eleven.

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Go for it.
Mom, Mom, Mom!

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One.

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My popcorn.
I wanted so much.

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Science, theory and method.

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So, correctly.

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Thank you for making me happy.

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By chance in my class we talked
about what a teacher should do

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if he saw a student
with signs of abuse.

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They said: \"It is not our responsibility.\"

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Because saying
it is a family issue

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is a way to justify
not doing anything.

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We draw a line between
the family and society.

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As if within the family,
power relations didn\'t exist.

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As if all families were
like the ones we see in movies.

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When your stepfather is the president,
when your stepfather has all the power.

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The entire country is his house.

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He would just send four bodyguards
to my school or the student movement.

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It was the same thing.

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I have been asked about
the hardest part of the abuse.

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I always say:

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Everyone suspects
but no one does anything.

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After the lawsuit,

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many would
say to me \"I knew.\"

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\"I saw something strange.\"

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Sure, what for?

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NOVEMBER 2016
Election day

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The lord of the Sandinista party.

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What is your estimate,
as experienced electoral observers

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regarding the level of participation?

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How are you?

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-Well, how about you?

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I can only see Giordano
because of his head.

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We getting through it.
Feeling tired.

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You?

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I am good.

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I had been talking to Giordano.
It was a little bit difficult.

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He was going to Nicaragua
to be with this father.

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He wanted to go,
but I told them it wasn\'t possible

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When do they start counting?
At midnight?

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No, between 9:00pm - 9:30pm
they give the first results.

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The majority didn\'t vote.

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It\'s what they are saying.

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There are always people
who vote for them.

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Those people turned out, but...

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If there were another good candidate,
who people knew, they would loose.

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Yes.

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I love you very much.

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You know that on days like these
I think about you and your brothers.

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-I know.

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Big kisses.
I love you my daughter.

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I love you too.
Take are of yourselves.

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Yes.

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When we arrived.
We lived in a room.

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His whole world
was on a bed.

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On the bed,
he saw television.

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He had to eat on the bed.

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Tears would roll down my face.
I was really scared.

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I had to step out.

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Leave him alone
so he would not see me.

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But I think,

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Little by little,
we stopped feeling fearful

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of sharing our feelings.

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We made the journey together.

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Wait for me there.
I am leaving soon.

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On election day he didn\'t
want to get up from the floor.

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He was saying:
\"They won, they won.\"

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\"I don\'t want to.
I want to be here.\"

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\"I don\'t understand why.
Leave me alone. I want to be here.\"

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I said to myself:
I understand the feeling of

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wanting to put
an end to everything

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even ones own life.
It is something very powerful.

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You see he always
wants to paint superheroes.

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The superhero always
triumphs over evil.

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In that world he is strong.

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But the hardest thing for me
has been to explain why

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his grandmother
doesn\'t love him.

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Without dehumanizing him.

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I have been very careful not
to fill my children\'s hearts with hate.

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My biggest fear in life
is that my children might resent

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the burden of
my fight in their lives.

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But Carolina, after everything
that has happened,

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always says:
\"Mom, we are invincible.\"

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JANUARY 2017
Inauguration day

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I order comrade Rosario to
speak to the nicaraguan people.

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I want to thank you.
And again tell nicaraguan women:

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We are here. Together.
Aware of everything we still don\'t have.

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I want to show this
doesn\'t affect me.

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-I can\'t concentrate.

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It is the truth.

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We invite
Jose Daniel Ortega Saavedra

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to take the oath of office for
president of the Republic of Nicaragua.

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For a five year term.

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Anyway, he was already president.
It doesn\'t make a difference.

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Five years?

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Five years?

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You see. She is signing.

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She is the president
and Daniel Ortega the bodyguard.

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Tell me.

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You are not going to tell me.

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You are not going to tell me.

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Tell me.
Look at me in the eyes.

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Yes.

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What happened Giordano?

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I know I shouldn\'t feel bad.

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Why not?
Who say you can\'t?

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Okay.

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What do we do?

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I am very cold.

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I hope my legacy to them will be

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to know that you
can really always start again.

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They will know
I never negotiated the truth.

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I didn\'t let it bring me down.

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Nor I remain focused on my pain.

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This story has to come to an end.

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I hope it will end
in the hearts of my children.

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Look at the eyes.

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In 2018, the Nicaraguan government, led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo,
carried out a brutal crackdown on protesters, who opposed
changes to the social security system, killing more than 350 people.

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The crisis sent some 50,000 Nicaraguans into exile. Like Zoilamérica,
most of them are living in Costa Rica, where they continue to demand justice.