Word: eduardo
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Ortega may have trouble solidifying his hold on power, as he won with only 38% of the vote. That was still 9 percentage points ahead of his nearest rival, U.S.-backed banker Eduardo Montealegre, leading some to conclude that Ortega profited from voter backlash against perceived U.S. meddling in the election. However, a bigger problem than Yanqui interference may have been Yanqui neglect. After Ortega was ousted from power in 1990, the U.S. did little to help war-ravaged Nicaragua get back on its feet. "We got rid of the Sandinistas and said everything else would take care of itself...
...election of Ortega - who won with 38% of the vote, about 8 points ahead of his U.S.-backed opponent, conservative banker Eduardo Montealegre - is no doubt a concern. After he and Sandinista guerrillas toppled Nicaragua's brutal dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, in 1979, Ortega led an authoritarian, Soviet-backed regime that wrecked the economy and fought a civil war with U.S.-backed contra rebels that killed some 50,000 people. Ortega was finally ousted in a 1990 election, and for the past 16 years, during which he twice failed to recapture the presidency, he seemed little more than a relic...
...Eduardo R. Montealegre, a 1980 Harvard Business School grad, saw his hopes of gaining the Nicaraguan presidency crushed by a former Marxist...
...vote in recent polls. And under new electoral rules written by the Sandinista-Liberal partnership, Ortega needs to win only 35%, and defeat his closest opponent by at least 5 percentage points, to avoid a runoff election. The race could be close, however, with a right-of-center candidate, Eduardo Montealegre, nipping at Ortega's heels...
...toddler puts a dollar bill in the empty Kleenex box he keeps on the ground.Most pedestrians rush by, but a few tourists congregate beside him, listening.“I don’t like the sound of it. It’s very freaky,” says Eduardo B. Alonso, a visitor from Spain. “The sound is very....” Alonso pauses, unable to describe the sound. After a pause, he makes a chopping motion in the air with his hands while making a whirring noise. “That’s what?...