felix maradiaga, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.t is now seven months since popular protest erupted in nicaragua, and for a time it seemed there was a real chance of change coming to your country. do you feel that that window of opportunity has now closed? i think that the window of opportunity for a quick fix has ended. i feel that the situation is more complicated. 0n the other hand, the average citizen of nicaragua, the average nicaraguan, is still interested in transition towards democracy. so i think that we have not only a chance but a firm commitment to move towards democracy. would you accept that perhaps you and others in the opposition, if we can loosely call it the opposition — you overestimated your ability to be the agents of change? i'm thinking ofjuan sebastian chamorro, who we actually interviewed on hardtalk. he talked of about a civic insurrection that is gonna unite a clear majority of nicaraguans around the goal of ending the dictatorship. big ambitions, but he was wrong. well, i cannot speak on behalf of the all