Perched on a hill outside Masaya, Nicaragua, with a stunning view of the town and volcano-riddled countryside, is an abandoned stone fortress called Coyotepe. It´s construction dates back more than 100 years, but its infamy comes from its use during the Somoza regime, when it housed dungeons and torture chambers for political prisoners. It was also the location of an infamous massacre, when during the revolution, as the Sandinistas stormed the hill, the National Guard slaughtered all prisoners inside moments before the fort was captured. I arrived there this morning, entering through the rusted gates to the sound of a young couple laughing. They stood on one of the domed turrets, the man taking pictures of the woman, who posed with her head turned, trying to accentuate her good side. The man scampered around, alternately kneeling
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