Political dissident Manuel de Jesús Sobalvarro Bravo recalled the early morning that Nicaraguan National Police took him to the courtyard of the Managua jailhouse known as El Chipote, put a hood over his head and pressed the barrel of a pistol to his temple. He and others like him, exiled to the U.S. by what they say is a government hostile to dissent, want Canada to open its doors to grant Nicaraguans permanent resident status.