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Eduardo R. Montealegre, a 1980 Harvard Business School grad, saw his hopes of gaining the Nicaraguan presidency crushed by a former Marxist...
Most preliminary counts show 60-year-old Daniel Ortega, who served as the Nicaraguan president from 1985 to 1990, as having already won 40 percent—the minimum a candidate needs to win an election in one round. If those counts are verified by electoral officials, Montealegre will not have the chance to challenge Ortega in a second round...
...feet. Nicaragua may simply be echoing the theme playing out all over Latin America right now, where U.S.-backed capitalist reforms have failed to reverse an epic gap between rich and poor, prompting voters to turn to leftists like Chavez. Seeing little to like in their immediate future, Nicaraguan voters could be poised to turn back the clock...
Like the last two U.S. presidential elections, the Nov. 5 Nicaraguan presidential election may feature a Harvard Business School graduate as one of its leading contenders. Liberal Party candidate Eduardo R. Montealegre, a former banker who graduated from the Business School in 1980, ranked third with 17.3 percent of the vote in a University of Central America poll released yesterday. Left-wing Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega led the poll with 37.5 percent of the vote, and Jose Rizo of the ruling Liberal Party ranked second with 20.1 percent. A September Zogby International poll ranked Montealegre in second place with...
...Posada has consistently denied involvement with the airline bombing. After his escape from the Venezuelan prison in 1985, he went to El Salvador, where he reunited with the CIA. He went to work assisting Oliver North in providing the Nicaraguan Contras with weapons and supplies. After his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair, Posada worked as a spy for then Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The court documents indicate Posada traveled around the Americas on false passports and that his line of work could be life-threatening. During a brief stint in Guatemala in 1990, he became the target...