Nicaragua frees 222 political prisoners, sends them to U.S.
In a move that may signal a desire for rapprochement with the United States, Nicaragua released 222 political prisoners, who are being flown to Washington. It was a stunning turn of events for the small Central American nation, which for the last 16 years has been ruled by Daniel Ortega, a former leftist Sandinista revolutionary who helped overthrow the country's right-wing dictatorship in the 1970s.
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