Thursday, October 16, 2008

Feminists disrupt Ortega's reign


TIME has a feature today on the interaction of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and the country's feminists.

Ortega is being pressed by the women's groups about his alleged sexual abuse of his stepdaughter.

In August, Paraguay's minister of women's affairs Gloria Rubin called Ortega a "rapist." Hounduras' minister of the National Institute of Women, Selma Estrada, resigned her post to protest Ortega's invitation to their capital.

Read more about this interesting foil to his presidency here.

Source and Photo: Time

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