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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-06-06 09:53 AM
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Convent-trained ex-rebel heads Nicaragua police
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (Reuters) - A former novice who gave up training to be a nun to fight in a leftist insurrection against a hated dictator was sworn in on Tuesday as Nicaragua's police chief.

Aminta Granera, who abandoned her training at a convent to join the Sandinista insurgents in the 1970s, said she would clean up the Central American nation's police force, which has been blighted by corruption in recent years.>>>>snip

Another woman, Sandinista commander Doris Tijerino, led the police during the leftists' government in the 1980s.
The Sandinistas left government after losing a 1990 election, but lead opinion polls and could win office again in a presidential vote in November.>>>>snip


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