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President Daniel Ortega has renewed calls for the private sector to engage in talks and has called for an end to the violence. We speak to Marcos Gonzalez, a reporter for 大象传媒 Mundo based in Miami. The candidate from Paraguay's ruling Colorado Party, Mario Abdo Benitez, is tipped to win the country's presidential election. Laurence Blair is a freelance journalist currently in the capital Asunci贸n and gives us the background on the country's economy. Also in the program, what's it like to come out as transgender at work? We hear from Claire Birkenshaw who transitioned from a man to a woman while she was a head teacher at a school in the UK. Plus, a two-part play of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter opens on Broadway in the US. Leslie Felperin, a reporter for Hollywood Review, tells us what it means for the broadway industry.

(Photo: Riot police and students in Managua have faced off across barricades. Credit: AFP)