Julio Martinez and Alejandro Bendana on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (2/6/19) - a podcast by Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Dr. Alejandro Bendaña is a Nicaraguan historian. During the first Sandinista government between the years of 1979 and 1990, he served as ambassador to the UN and secretary general to the Nicaraguan foreign ministry. Julio Martinez Ellsberg is co-coordinator of the International Relations Commission for the Nicaraguan Platform for Social Movements and Civil Society Organizations (Articulación de Movimientos Sociales y Organizaciones de Sociedad Civil de Nicaragua) as well as part of the support group to one of Nicaragua's main student movements, the Coordinadora Universitaria por la Democracia y la Justicia. In this installment of “Leonard Lopate” on WBAI, Dr. Alejandro Bendaña and Julio Martinez Ellsberg discuss the repression of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's administration along with other issues facing the region.

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