Octogenarian daughter of General Sandino votes in Nicaragua

Managua, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) Blanca Segovia Sandino Arauz, the daughter of General Augusto C. Sandino and Blanca Arauz, both Nicaraguan national heroes, today exercised her right to vote in the general elections at a center in the capital.

November 7, 2021
12:06

The 88-year-old woman through whose veins runs the anti-imperialist beliefs of his father, who expelled the US Marines from Nicaragua on January 1, 1933, attended the electoral college in a wheelchair and was assisted in the act by auxiliary personnel as provided by the law for cases of disabled or very old people.

Sandino Arauz invited all Nicaraguans to exercise the right to vote in these general elections, eighth that takes place in the Central American country after the fall in 1979 of the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

This Sunday, almost 4.5 million Nicaraguans are summoned to elect the presidential formula, as well as the deputies to the National (Legislative) Assembly and the Central American Parliament.

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