"There is no justice [..] in Nicaragua, no freedom of expression, we can't have a mass because they send [...] a patrol at 5 o'clock in the morning, paramilitaries, motorised vehicles, riot police," says Aura Lila Lopez, whose son Junior Gaitan died in the 2018 protests against president Daniel Ortega. She refuses to vote in the Sunday elections, calling them a "circus". Instead, she will lay flowers at her son's altar. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES