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Gioconda Belli is an award-winning Nicaraguan author. She has published novels, essays, poetry collections, and a memoir called \\u201cThe country under my skin,\\u201d which recounts her time as a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front\\u2014fighting to free her country from a dictatorship. Now, 40 years after the Sandinista victory, Gioconda finds herself living in exile and unable to return to Nicaragua. She was recently stripped of her citizenship by the person who once was her comrade: President Daniel Ortega.

In this episode of Latino USA, Gioconda talks about her long history of standing up to dictators, what she finds revolutionary in writing, and what hopes she still has for the future of Nicaragua.