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Daniel Ortega

Sandinista revolutionary and president of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990 and again from 2007, co-president with Rosario Murillo since 2025 · Nicaragua · On the map · Activists · Born 1945 · age 81 · Birthday today

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José Daniel Ortega Saavedra is a Nicaraguan politician, revolutionary, and former guerrilla fighter who, under various titles, has been the leader of Nicaragua since 2007 and previously from 1979 to 1990.

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See the moment2015Order of FriendshipAward2009Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human RightsAward2007Named President of NicaraguaOfficefrom 10 January 20071985Named President of NicaraguaOffice10 January 1985 to 25 April 19901983Order of SukhbaatarAward1979“Imperialism cannot conceive of a free people, a sovereign people, an independent people. Because, simply and plainly, for them the people is nothing more than an empty phrase.”In their wordsSeptember 1979(Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)

“The Nicaraguan people have won, with their blood, the right to be here today, in this way breaking with a historic past of servility towards imperialist policy.”In their wordsSeptember 1979(Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)

“Sandino embodied the desire for liberty of a people who were systematically subjected to the attack of Yankee intervention and subjected to imperialist exploitation an domination.”In their wordsSeptember 1979(Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)

“We are Sandinistas; our people have been struggling against oppression and interventions for more than 150 years.”In their wordsSeptember 1979(Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)

“We are a poor country that wants to take the efforts and resources now being invested in defense of the revolution and invest it in tractors and plows.”In their wordsSeptember 1979(Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)

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Order of Friendship2015
Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights2009
Order of Sukhbaatar1983
Order of the Sun of Peru
Order of José Martí
Order of Honor and Glory First Class
Uatsamonga Order
Order of Augusto César Sandino
Orden de la Independencia Cultural Rubén Darío
Order of Honour and Glory
Order of Miguel Larreynage

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He first came to power as the coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction from 1979 to 1985, and then served as president of Nicaragua from 1985 until 1990. He reassumed the presidency in 2007 and has served alongside his wife Rosario Murillo as co-president since February 2025. Ortega has been described as an authoritarian leader and has invited comparisons to Anastasio Somoza. Multiple media outlets and politicians in the international community have referred to him and his wife as dictators.

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Nicaragua
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Activists
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Activist
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Living
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Born 1945 · age 81

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