ITT EXTRA: Nicaragua's Crisis Explained
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It all started with deadly, violent protests against the Nicaraguan government, but did it really? In this special ITT EXTRA, Julio catches up with Latino USA producer Sayre Quevedo to hear the behind the scenes of his reporting for his latest explainer. Want to read more?
- The crisis in images, from the BBC.
Nicaragua is near a catastrophe, according to The Washington Post.
The New York Times explains the increasingly important role of the church in the protests.
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| 0:00.0 | Those are the sounds that are coming out of Nicaragua right now. |
| 0:18.0 | It's one of many many protests that have spread across the country that has been ruled by |
| 0:24.3 | Daniel Ortega since more than a decade and this is a special ITT extra. I'm |
| 0:30.4 | Maria Inu Hosa and I'm Gulli O' Julio Rico Barella and Maria today we wanted to highlight the work the incredible work that |
| 0:37.6 | Latino USA did especially Saire a |
| 0:39.9 | Kevedo one of our our producers on our sister podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | And when I heard the Nicaragua story, I just was like, |
| 0:47.2 | I need to talk to both you about this because it was the best |
| 0:50.7 | podcast that I listened to this week. |
| 0:52.3 | And it was so powerful especially |
| 0:54.6 | because Nicaragua was on the brink of the Civil War. So what was your reaction to |
| 0:58.0 | the reporting or just what's happening Nicaragua now with the protests? |
| 1:01.3 | Being in college you know in the early 1980s, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, |
| 1:07.0 | this was like the biggest story of our time and you know I actually lived through seeing a successful guerrilla left |
| 1:16.4 | revolution in the Sandinista Revolution of 1979, like we actually saw them topple |
| 1:21.8 | a dictator. |
| 1:23.4 | But then the other side of that was that the United States |
| 1:26.0 | started, you know, really putting a big, big foot |
| 1:29.9 | on all of Central America. |
| 1:31.9 | So these things that we're now talking about, it's like it was |
| 1:34.9 | real life for me. Like it was part of going to college was going to |
| 1:38.4 | protests around Central America. Yeah and and seeing the Ortega presidency now and seeing the images and being told |
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