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Nicaraguan ex-president and corruption fighter Bolanos dies

By AFP
June 17, 2021

MANAGUA: Nicaragua’s former president Enrique Bolanos, who led a fierce fight against corruption, has died at the age of 93, his family said on Wednesday. Bolanos, who beat a favored Daniel Ortega in the 2001 elections and was in power until 2007, was buried on Tuesday in the western city of Masaya, where he lived.