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A woman sweeps the Cuba Plaza backdropped by a mural depicting Cuba's former President Fidel Castro and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016. An estimated 3 million Nicaraguans will go to the polls on Sunday to vote in their country's general election. Ortega and his running mate, wife Rosario Murillo, are considered shoo-ins for the country's top leadership positions. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) (AP)

Nicaragua at the barricades

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