MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The hundreds of hot dog buns, bananas and containers of instant soup stacked up at the Polytechnic University basketball court suggest that the young people hunkered down here are not planning to capitulate. Young men with T-shirts covering their faces carry homemade mortar-launchers as they patrol the grounds. “This is not a war; this a struggle we young people are doing,” said Freddy Martínez, one of the few people here who revealed his face and name. We are Nicaragua.”The Nicaraguan youth did something few people in this country thought possible. Incited by an unpopular change in the social security system that would not immediately affect them, they staged a spontaneous uprising that has loosened Mr. Ortega’s sweeping grip on power.

Source: New York Times April 27, 2018 21:29 UTC