Word: ortega
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call on you to organize, organize, organize. The more organized you are, the more difficult it will be for the counterrevolutionaries." All over newly liberated Nicaragua last week, people responded to Guerrilla Leader Humberto Ortega's appeal. From Chinandenga in the north to Rivas in the south, committees led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.) began distributing food and providing medical care for the thousands wounded in the savage civil war against exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle. In Managua the junta that heads the Government of National Reconstruction ordered peasants who had occupied plantations owned by wealthy...
...Ortega y Gasset...
...soft, nasal voice. But his quiet charisma has enabled the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) writer to win the confidence of all the factions represented on the five-member ruling junta and its 15-member Cabinet, though the ideologies range from the doctrinaire Marxism of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega to the capitalism of Businessman Alfonso Robelo. "During all the negotiations we had with the junta, Ramírez came out as the strong man," says a U.S. diplomat. "He behaved in a tough manner and struck us as the kind of leftist liberal who has little sympathy...
Financed by socialists in Europe and South America, the Terceristas have staged the most spectacular Sandinista operations, including last year's brief takeover of the National Palace in Managua. The best-known Tercerista is Eden Pastora, the Comandante Cero (Zero) who led that raid. More influential are the Ortega brothers, Humberto and Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic...
Representatives from the Puerto Rican student organizations Mayo-Mecha and La Organization were present at the discussion. "I know students around here are concerned," Carlos Ortega, a graduate student at the School of Education and a member of Mayo-Mecha, said yesterday. "It's just a matter of publicizing exactly how we can help...