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Daniel Ortega
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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.
— (Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)
Daniel Ortega
Nicaraguan politician
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Born 1945 · age 81
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Ortega led a revolution against a US-backed dictator in 1979, governed as a Marxist–Leninist through civil war and economic collapse, lost power in 1990, then returned in 2007 and transformed into what international observers now call a dictator himself — jailing rivals, shuttering NGOs and newspapers, and ruling alongside his wife as co-president.
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Born 11 November 1945, Ortega rose through the Sandinista National Liberation Front and helped overthrow Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, becoming coordinator of the ruling junta and then president in 1985. His first government pursued nationalization, land reform, and literacy programs while fighting US-backed Contras throughout the 1980s and forcibly displacing 10,000 indigenous people. Defeated by Violeta Chamorro in 1990 amid economic ruin, he lost again in 1996 and 2001 before winning in 2006. His second tenure abandoned earlier leftist principles and slid toward authoritarianism: violen…
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Daniel Ortega
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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.
— (Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)
Daniel Ortega
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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.
— (Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)
Daniel Ortega
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We are Sandinistas; our people have been struggling against oppression and interventions for more than 150 years.
— (Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)
Daniel Ortega
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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.
— (Cited in Leiken and Rubin, Central American, 201)
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