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Allison Griner

Imprisoned and exiled, a Nicaraguan activist rebuilds her life in the US

Tamara Davila arrives at a court hearing in Managua, Nicaragua, on August 31, 2022 [File: Cesar Perez/Nicaraguan Presidency via AFP]

As her isolation in Nicaragua’s infamous El Chipote prison stretched month after month, Tamara Davila held fast to the conviction that she would one day be free to see her daughter again.

But freedom would ultimately take her farther away than ever. Six months ago, on February 9, Davila was one of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners packed onto an aeroplane and sent into exile in the United States, there to face an uncertain future.

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