When your president acts like a dictator

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Nicaragua is spiraling into a state of national catastrophe, as clashes between police and student protesters over the past two months have left more than 100 dead. Reuters' Delphine Schrank explains why much of that anger is aimed towards President Daniel Ortega, who critics say is acting more and more like the dictator he helped kick out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Vanderbluge!
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0:03.6	No, no, it can't be.
0:05.2	I mean, there's this, there's that, there's who, there's what, there's when, there's
0:07.9	a lot to choose from.
0:08.9	And I think I know what it is though, but it's a...
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0:17.6	A new wave of protests seized the Nicaraguan Capitol up in Nagwood this week.
0:33.0	It began in mid-April, with people demonstrating against biting new changes to the country's
0:38.6	social security system.
0:40.2	Mandatory worker contributions to the scheme were increased and pensions were reduced.
0:44.8	After years of alleged corruption by government officials.
0:48.3	There's been another round of violent protests in Nicaragua.
0:51.8	Violent protests continue in Nicaragua as students seize the engineering university in Managua.
0:59.8	More than 110 people have been killed in the country since mid-April amid clashes between
1:11.2	forces loyal to President Daniel Lortega and opposition groups demanding his removal.
1:16.8	The former Sandinista leader has been in power for years, first in 1979 for 11 years,
1:23.2	and then again from 2007.
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