Mónica Baltodano, Former Sandinista Commander: “I Want the Youth to Analyze the Revolution with Justice for the Nicaraguans Who Gave Their Lives”

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Mónica Baltodano (León, Nicaragua, 71) is a testimony of history. He was part of the guerrillas who in the 1970s fought to dethrone the Somoza dictatorship, which crushed his country with military boot for more than 40 years. He was a guerrilla commander, occupied important positions in the revolutionary government, later elected as a deputy, and his leadership raised blisters in the current regime of Daniel Ortega, who chased her until forced i…