‘A feeling of deja vu’: author Sergio Ramírez on ex-comrade Ortega and Nicaraguan history repeating

The country's greatest living writer feels surprised, bewildered and assaulted' after the president issued a warrant for his arrest and seized copies of his new novel about the 2018 uprising

Sergio Ramirez, Nicaragua's best-known living writer, hero of the Sandinista revolution, and former vice-president of the volcanic Central American nation, has lived through both tougher times and duller publicity tours.

Even so, the past few days have been - as he puts it, with a degree of understatement - an odd experience".