The Sunday Story: A rare look inside locked-down Nicaragua

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🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today on The Sunday Story NPR correspondent Eyder Peralta travels to Nicaragua. He's the first foreign journalist to make it into the country in more than a year. He traveled to his home country to get an inside look at what life is like for people living under what some call the newest dictatorship in The Americas. He found a country suffocating in fear and he found his own family history repeating.

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0:00.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is the Sunday story.
0:03.7	Today we're going on a journey,
0:05.6	one that starts deep in the mountains of Central America,
0:08.8	along the border between Honduras and Nicaragua.
0:14.6	MPR's Ador Peralta traveled to a remote border post
0:18.6	to try to enter Nicaragua,
0:20.7	a country that has kept all foreign journalists
0:22.9	out for more than a year.
0:24.8	And here you are, Ador, trying to get in.
0:28.7	Yeah, and I mean, I was definitely nervous
0:31.6	about what I was doing.
0:32.9	I know journalists colleagues who have been turned around
0:36.4	at the airport just because they're journalists
0:38.6	and this is also a country that has thrown journalists
0:42.2	in prison.
0:43.4	And so why did you think that you would be able to get in
0:47.1	when so many other journalists had failed?
0:50.0	Is part of it because you were at such a remote area
0:54.2	trying to cross the border?
0:56.1	Yeah, that was definitely part of it.
0:58.2	I also had a golden ticket.
1:01.0	So okay, a golden ticket, you said.
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