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...Leading in the polls is former President Daniel Ortega - the leftist Sandinista whom Nicaraguans tossed out in 1990 after he presided over a civil war-torn decade of Marxist authoritarianism and economic disaster. Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez...
...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 19 percent of the vote. “He certainly has a chance,” said...
...After Ecuador's election, Washington stands to finish the year swallowing more leftist victories: polls show Daniel Ortega, the controversial former Sandinista President of Nicaragua, may well win that country's Nov. 5 election; and Chavez himself is expected to punctuate 2006 for the Latin left by winning re-election...
...memory’s best compass in the river of time—connecting each of us to our other selves. We need to understand popular expressions always, in order to judge where we’ll personally stand on the re-writes every generation makes. As Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset explained, all that really differentiates us from apes is the pile of human errors we call “History.” And yet a sort of historic principle of uncertainty rules what each of us defines as “mistake...
...Zapatero's admirers will see it as a sign that the atheist leader is no hypocrite. But on the flight from Rome, when papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls was asked about the absence, he pointed out that on John Paul's visits, even Communist leaders Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega attended Catholic masses out of respect for the Pope. Not necessarily a knockout, but a glancing blow for sure...