Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,

the past brought to life by those who are there.

This week, breakthrough British women, we hear from the country's first Black head teacher and the first Muslim cabinet minister.

It was really moving, it's really humbling and something that I suppose, you know, a working-glass

daughter of a Pakistani migrant doesn't think she's going to end up doing.

Also the Greek culture minister Molina McCurry and her fight to return the Elgin

Marbles.

What does the Taj Mahal mean to India?

What do the paintings with the Sistine Chapel mean to Italy?

The Parsonon Marlous are our pride. They are our identity.

And 60 years after the event, the birth of the Barbie doll.

A lot of people thought that they modeled it after me and they made it look like me and that I was the real Barbie.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin this week with a story of a revolutionary leader in Central America

and the dark shadow that was cast over his life and achievements.

Daniel Ortega is once again president of Nicaragua,

but he first came to prominence as the young revolutionary

who led the overthrow of the American-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979.

He became an icon of revolutionary movements across Latin America and around the world.

But in March 1998, Daniel Ortega was accused by his own stepdaughter, Zolamerica Nardbaez, of having sexually abused her since she was a little girl.

The accusations denied by Daniel Ortega, sent shock waves through the region.

Mike Lanchen has been hearing from Zoil America about her traumatic and disturbing story. A Nicaragua, nicaaguita.

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