Nicaragua’s legislature appears set to approve a constitutional amendment that would elevate the wife of the country’s leader to a new role as “co-president.” Opposition leader Félix Maradiaga, now in exile in Miami, speaks with The World’s Host Marco Werman about the deterioration of democracy in Nicaragua.
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