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  Daniel Ortega - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Ortega was born to a middle-class family in La Libertad, Nicaragua.
In Ortega’s last days as president, through a series of legislative acts known as “The Piñata”, estates that had been seized by the Sandinista government (some valued at millions and even billions US$) became the private property of various FSLN officials, including Ortega himself.
Daniel Ortega was instrumental in creating the controversial strategic pact between the FSLN and the Constitutional Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC).
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  Daniel Ortega Summary
Daniel Ortega Saavedra was born on November 11, 1945, in the mining and ranching town of La Libertad, Nicaragua, in the municipality of Chontales.
Ortega served on the junta of the National Reconstruction Government from 1979 until its dissolution in January 1985 and was the key liaison between the junta and the National Directorate, which set general policy guidelines for the revolution.
Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) was the president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990.
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 Who is the real Daniel Ortega?
Daniel Ortega Saavedra was one of the leaders of the Sandinista rebels who ousted rightwing dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979 and established a leftist regime in Nicaragua.
Ortega's "turn to the right" is evident in his political pact six years ago with former president Arnoldo Alemán, his old political adversary who is now under house arrest for corruption.
Ortega has been weakened by his alliance with a Catholic cardinal and the right wing and he will be unable to fulfil his electoral promises.
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 Daniel Ortega Saavedra - Encyclopedia.com
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, 1945-, president of Nicaragua (1979-90, 2007-).
Ortega subsequently twice lost in presidential elections, in 1996 to Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo and in 2001 to Enrique Bolaños, but in 2006 he again won the presidency, against a divided center-right opposition.
Daniel Ortega Saavedra [leader of the Sandinista junta] said a couple of weeks ago that the contras have cost them about one third of...
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 Daniel Ortega - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) was President of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990, during the Sandinista government, and is currently the leader of the Sandinista party.
Ortega was one of several leaders of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional in its guerrilla war against Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
Ortega's ambitious program of land reform was also subject to criticism, and it was alleged that Sandinista leaders used their power for personal advantage.
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 Daniel Ortega: A victim Of U.S. Power By Leigh Saavedra
Daniel Ortega had been elected by about 70 percent of the voters in 1984 in an election that every observing country on earth but the U.S. recognized as valid, including our ally the U.K. The success of Sandinistas winning positions in Parliament had been about the same rate.
She and Daniel Ortega had separated their ideologies some years earlier, and watching her as we spoke in her office I wondered how they had ever sat together in a united group trying for the same goals.
Daniel once said, "Everybody in Nicaragua is a poet until proven otherwise." It may be that it is on that one easily-remembered comment that the history of Nicaragua hangs.
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 Ortega Saavedra, Daniel
Ortega became a member of the Junta of National Reconstruction, and its effective head in 1981.
This weakened further the economy and polarized politics, and in 1990 Ortega was defeated in the presidential elections by US-backed Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, a former member of the 1979 junta.
Ortega became secretary general of the FSLN in 1991, but despite repackaging himself as a more moderate democratic socialist, he was defeated in the 1996 and 2001 presidential elections, by the conservatives Arnoldo Alemán and Enrique Bolanos respectively.
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 americas.org - Latino Media Ask: Who Is the Real Daniel Ortega?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Daniel Ortega Saavedra was one of the leaders of the Sandinista rebels, who ousted right-wing dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979 and established a leftist regime in Nicaragua.
Ortega was elected president in 1984 and was president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990.
Ortega took a public stance against abortion, backing Nicaragua's Oct. 26 ban of all abortions, including cases where the fetus was a product of rape or where the mother's health was at risk.
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 Daniel Ortega Biography (Politician) — Infoplease.com
Ortega emerged as a leader in the urban resistance campaign against the U.S.-trained forces of the ruling Somoza family, but in 1967 he was jailed for bank robbery and then exiled to Cuba for seven years.
In addition, the FSLN and Ortega were condemned by U.S. president Ronald Reagan for their Marxist ideology and their close ties to the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro of Cuba.
Ortega was finally able to cobble together enough unlikely political alliances to regain the presidency in the elections of November 2006.
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 Daniel Ortega Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Daniel Ortega (born 1945) joined the revolutionary Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación National--FSLN) in 1963, helped lead its overthrow of the Somoza dynasty, and was elected president of Nicaragua on November 4, 1984.
Ortega, still in high school in Managua in 1959, took part in a widespread student struggle against the Somoza regime.
Ortega's rise to the presidency was regarded by many as a commitment by the FSLN's National Directorate to continue the pragmatism of 1979-1985, a sign also reflected in his moderate inaugural speech.
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 Testimonio de Zoilamérica Narváez contra su padrastro Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega decía que yo estaba emocialmente muy mal, que no podía trabajar y me chantajeaba afirmando que cualquier decisión mía afectaba su persona y a la Revolución, que solamente yo le daba tranquilidad de espíritu y así podía cumplir mejor con los altos deberes para los cuales lo citó la historia.
Daniel Ortega conoció de mi participación en actividades políticas fuera de Managua, mandó a sus escoltas por mí y me llevaron a la casa de protocolo de la Comandancia General del Ejército, y bajo el pretexto de que se sentía sumamente deprimido procedió una vez más a usar mi cuerpo.
Daniel Ortega, excediéndose más allá de lo que en mí ya practicaba, llegó a presionarme para que ellas accedieran a sostener contactos sexuales conmigo, a fin de observar y excitarse, lo que no permití en ningún momento.
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 Ortega Saavedra Daniel - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ortega Saavedra, Daniel, born in 1945, president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990, and reelected in November 2006 to a second five-year term beginning...
Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) was the president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990.
José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (La Libertad, 11 de noviembre de 1945) es el actual presidente de Nicaragua.
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 Daniel Ortega Saavedra - Picture - MSN Encarta
Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega led the urban resistance campaign of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) that ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979.
Ortega became president in 1984 after winning over 60 percent of the vote.
Ortega lost the presidency in 1990 but won reelection in 2006, decrying what he called the savagery of capitalism but saying he no longer considered himself a Marxist revolutionary.
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 Daniel Ortega
Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) is the current president-elect of Nicaragua...
Ortega Saavedra was president of Nicaragua from 1985-1990...
Ortega was re-elected as president of the FSLN, despite allegations of sexual abuse from his stepdaughter...
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 Daniel Ortega Saavedra's biograohy [president of Nicaragua]
In popular elections for the presidency and National Assembly in 1984, Ortega was elected president with more than 60 percent of the vote.
Ortega sought foreign help in relief and reconstruction, but he was wary of compromising his country's international neutrality and mixed domestic economy and secured aid primarily from Latin America and from Western European countries.
Ortega was defeated by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in national elections in 1990; he became secretary general of the FSLN in July 1991.
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 Daniel Ortega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ortega was defeated by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in the 1990 presidential election, but he remained an important figure in Nicaraguan opposition politics.
Ortega was born to a middle-class family in La Libertad, department of Chontales, Nicaragua.
His parents, Daniel Ortega and Lidia Saavedra, were active in opposition to the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and he was arrested for his own political activities at the early age of 15.
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 The political games of Daniel Ortega, leader of the Nicaraguan left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
While Ortega’s image has deteriorated within his party and among the population in general, his most recent moves demonstrate the political power of the long-standing leader of the Nicaraguan left.
Ortega sought, with this favor, to postpone the municipal elections and maintain his party’s leaders in power.
Ortega is seeking to obtain a parliamentary majority by drawing several deputies away from the PLC, a party that, after the meetings between Ortega and Bolaños and the jailing of its leader, has begun to lose control over the country’s political agenda.
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 Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - The Ortega Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the spring of 1998, Zoilamerica Narvaez Murillo shook Nicaraguan society to the core by accusing her step-father, Daniel Ortega, the leader of the Sandinista revolution, of sexual abuse.
In a 47-page document she presented to Nicaragua's Permanent Human Rights Commission, she detailed the sexual, emotional and psychological abuse she was allegedly subjected to by the former Nicaraguan leader.
The Ortega case has put the issue of sexual abuse on the Nicaraguan social and political agenda, says Violeta Delgado of the Women's Network in Nicaragua.
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 La Prensa - Nacionales - Infarto era inminente
El general retirado Humberto Ortega Saavedra, de 52 años, comenzó a caminar ayer por la tarde, luego que médicos costarricenses le practicaran una delicada operación a corazón abierto para restablecerle el flujo sanguíneo en tres arterias coronarias que estaban obstruidas en un 95%, según se informó en San José.
Daniel Ortega, secretario general del FSLN, se trasladó a Costa Rica para conocer el estado de salud de su hermano Humberto.
Humberto Ortega estaba ingresando a la sala de operaciones a las 9:30 de la mañana del pasado sábado, donde estuvo por espacio de tres horas.
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 Daniel Ortega: The Washington Post's Target Of The Week By Leigh Saavedra
he first time I saw Daniel Ortega, he was driving his fl SUV down a busy street, his window rolled down against the heat and dust of Managua, his arm on the sill, exposed to the sun.
In the junta was Daniel Ortega, a champion, fearless revolutionary who had been forced to sit out a portion of the fight in jail.
For so many, socialism and communism were interchangeable words, so that when Daniel Ortega was elected by a large majority in 1984, he was simply "the Communist leader." This was the picture portrayed in the United States, always with emphasis on Nicaragua's close ties with the Soviet Union and Castro.
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 Daniel Ortega (Saavedra) - Encyclopedia.com
Ortega (Saavedra), Daniel (1945– ;) Nicaraguan statesman, president (1984–90).
In 1979, Ortega led the revolution that toppled the Somoza regime and formed a socialist government.
In 1990 elections, Ortega was defeated by Violeta Chamorro.
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 CNN Cold War - Profile: Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Born in La Libertad, Nicaragua, on November 11, 1945, to middle-class parents who were actively opposed to Nicaragua's dictator, Anastasio Somoza, Ortega was first arrested for his political activities at the age of 15.
Ortega was one of the leading commanders of the forces that ousted Somoza in July 1979 and became the head of the ruling junta at the head of the government of national reconstruction.
In the February 1990 elections under the Arias agreement, Ortega and the Sandinistas lost to a right-centrist coalition led by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
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 Sassas samlade svammel 2 - november 2006
I valet år 1990 var nicaraguanerna mycket trötta på dessa förhållandena och röstade bort Daniel Ortega (och vice-presidenten Sergio Ramírez).
Daniel Ortega fick alltså lämna makten åt andra partier.
Daniel får hålla koll på vad han säger.
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 AllRefer.com - Daniel Ortega Saavedra (Nicaragua History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Daniel Ortega Saavedra[OrtA´gA sAvAth´rA] Pronunciation Key, 1945–;, president of Nicaragua (1979–90).
As a university student, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandino, Augusto CEsar), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that opposed the Somoza dictatorship.
Ortega has since twice lost in presidential elections, in 1996 to Arnoldo AlemAn Lacayo and in 2001 to Enrique Bolanos.
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 Daniel Ortega Prezidan Nan Eleksyon Prezidansyèl Nicaragua a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Ansyen lidè geriya Fwon Sandinis Liberasyon Nasyonal la, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, ki te kapote diktati Anastasio Somoza de Baile a an 1979 genyen eleksyon dimanch pase a nan Nicaragua.
Daniel Ortega ki te rive o pouvwa apre triyònf revolisyon sandinis la, te pèdi pouvwa a nan eleksyon 1990 yo.
Nan deklarasyon li fè madi pase, prezidan elu Nicaragua a di: "mwen ankouraje tout gwoup ekonomik ak diferan gwoup sosyal yo fè inite pou yo lite kont lamizè nan peyi a.
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