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Chris Smith: “I first met with Daniel Ortega in 1984 on a human rights mission to Nicaragua when there was a terrible war going on and…”

On the recordDecember 17, 2019
I first met with Daniel Ortega in 1984 on a human rights mission to Nicaragua when there was a terrible war going on and his human rights abuses, which were egregious and pervasive then, continue to be so today.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith recalls his early encounter with Ortega and ongoing human rights abuses in Nicaragua.

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