透過廣告公司嘅一個同事，貝莉識咗卡米洛·奧爾特加，佢介紹貝莉畀桑地諾民族解放陣線同埋邀請佢咗佢入組織。1970年，貝莉參與咗反對索摩查家族獨裁統治嘅運動。因為貝莉喺反對運動中嘅行動，她被迫喺1975年流亡墨西哥。其後佢喺桑地諾民族解放陣線勝利之前嘅1979年返返尼加拉瓜。1982年佢做咗桑地諾民族解放陣線（FSLN）嘅國際新聞聯絡員，1984年做咗國家通訊局局長。喺佢做局長嗰陣，她識咗美國NPR記者Charles Castaldi，兩個人亦喺1987年結婚。自1990年以嚟，她都住喺馬拿瓜同洛杉磯兩地。之後，她離開咗FSLN，而家更加做咗現政府嘅主要批評者。
Through a colleague in the advertising agency, Bailey met Camilo · Ortega, who introduced Bailey to the Sandinista National Liberation Front and invited him to join the organization. In 1970, Bailey participated in a campaign against the dictatorship of the Somoza family. Because of Bailey's actions in the opposition, she was forced into exile in Mexico in 1975. He then returned to Nicaragua in 1979, before the victory of the Sandinista National Liberation Front. In 1982 he became the international press liaison of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and in 1984 he became Director of the National Communications Agency. When he was an administrator, she met Charles Castaldi, a reporter for NPR in United States, and the two married in 1987. Since 1990, she has also lived in Managua and Los Angeles. After that, she left the FSLN and is now more of a leading critic of the current government.