Word: ortega
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...Daniel Ortega Saavedra, the day began with a two-hour drive from Managua, the capital, to the ranching town of Juigalpa. As the coordinator of Nicaragua's ruling junta, Ortega presided over a town meeting in the local movie theater. Then, as the Sandinista party candidate for President in the Nov. 4 elections, he led a parade of jubilant supporters through the town's narrow streets. Dressed in his customary army fatigues, Ortega acted like the seasoned politico, waving to onlookers, kissing babies and savoring the cheers of "De Frente! De Frente! Daniel por Presidente!" (Forward! Forward! Daniel...
Standing awkwardly behind a microphone in a new suit and tie, he looked like a timid substitute teacher or possibly a computer whiz before a job interview -anything but what he really was: the uncompromising leader of Nicaragua's pro-Marxist Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is running in his government's first presidential elections on Nov. 4, spent the past two weeks stumping across the U.S. Accompanied by his wife and an entourage of eleven Nicaraguan officials and ten Secret Service men, Ortega was attempting to woo Americans away from President Reagan's anti...
...soften the comandante's stern image, Nicaragua's New York-based public affairs consultant coaxed Ortega out of his customary green fatigues and into preppie tweeds. The revolutionary leader wowed Manhattan intellectuals at the august New York Athletic Club, elicited impassioned shouts from students at Harvard, was feted by civil rights leaders in Atlanta and was lionized by screen stars at a Beverly Hills lawn party. An internal Sandinista memo brashly stated the visitor's goal as "literally invading the U.S. media...
...United States. Reliable reports from Nicaragua have it that the government is going out of its way to squelch the campaign of the most prominent of its opponents, the disillusioned former junta member Artoro Cruz, and right now there is no reason to expect the janta leader, Daniel Ortega Snavculra, will not be elected president next month in an electoral sham overshadowed only by the angling guerilla...
...postpone the elections to give the opposition candidates a reasonable shot at office, thus effectively scotching the application in Nicaragua of the Contadora principle of free participation of political parties in the electoral process. Nor, despite Washington's horrible policies towards the country, is there any evidence backing up Ortega's claim--repeated in a Harvard appearance last week--that Washington horrible planning a November military invasion of his country. It is clear that Ortega and his cronics are searching for scapegoats to explain away their inability to lift the Nicaraguan peasantry above the squalor in which they were left...