Songs, tears and resistance: the Nicaraguan exile rallying audiences in Costa Rica

As one of the tens of thousands to have fled Daniel Ortega’s regime, singer and ‘artivist’ Olguita Acuña says she has a duty to raise awareness of her country’s situation

When Olguita Acuña starts singing and playing guitar, the audience in San José, Costa Rica’s capital city, responds with chants of “Olga! Olga!”.

“My people cry, and they cry for all the blood shed due to the repression,” she sings in one song. Another is about missing her grandmother’s funeral because she could not return to her home country.

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