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Daniel Ortega. José Daniel Ortega Saavedra ( Spanish pronunciation: [daˈnjel oɾˈteɣa]; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician and the 58th president of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously, he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1985, and then as the ...
Hugo Torres Jiménez (25 April 1948 – 11 February 2022) was a Nicaraguan Sandinista guerrilla and military leader who was a brigadier general in the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. During the Sandinista National Liberation Front effort to overthrow the Somoza family regime, Torres was the only guerrilla who participated in both the 1974 Christmas ...
The Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a Christian socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas ( Spanish pronunciation: [sandiˈnistas]) in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto César Sandino, who led the Nicaraguan resistance ...
Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez, a former Sandinista leader, takes on Pres. Daniel Ortega's repressive government in his novel, "Tongolele no sabía bailar." He was a Sandinista leader.
A mural in Las Manos, Nicaragua, seen in 2016, depicts Sandinista martyrs. Rising to power within the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s, the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN ...
Nicaraguan judges on Monday sentenced a former high-level Sandinista official to 13 years in prison for “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.” Victor Hugo Tinoco is one of dozens of ...
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez (November 15, 1936 [1] or January 22, 1937 [2] [3] – June 16, 2020 [4]) was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. [5] In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the ...
The Nicaraguan Revolution ( Spanish: Revolución Nicaragüense or Revolución Popular Sandinista) began with rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the ouster of the dictatorship in 1978–79, [ 28] and the Contra War [broken anchor], fought between the government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990.