RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cristiana Chamorro, the Nicaraguan opposition figure with the highest probability of winning the November elections, in which President Daniel Ortega is seeking new reelection, spent this Thursday 24 hours confined in her house, incommunicado and under strong police surveillance.
Practically "this is a kidnapping", said her lawyer, Orieta Benavides, who affirmed that none member of the legal team defending Chamorro has been able to communicate with her.
Chamorro, daughter of former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997), who defeated Ortega in the 1990 elections, remains confined to her home in southern Managua after a judge . . .
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