United Colors Of Photographers - Daniel ORTEGA - Sandiniste

 
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Daniel Ortega, was born in La Libertad, Nicaragua , in 1945. Both his parents were staunch opponents of the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza and had suffered periods of imprisonment. As a young man his hero was Augusto Sandino , a guerrilla leader murdered by Somoza. In 1963 Ortega joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Ortega eventually became head of the urban resistance but he was arrested and imprisoned in 1967.

(The united people will never be vanquished), by Segio Ortega: it is a Chilean 1973 song, the year in which President Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed. This expression is the most often heard in the South American leftist demonstrations.
 

Daniel Ortega Saavedra was president of Nicaragua from 1985-1990. As one of the leading commanders of the Sandinista forces that ousted Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in July 1979, he became head of the ruling junta in the subsequent leftist regime. In disputed elections in November 1984, he was elected president. During the 1980s Ortega led the Sandinistas in a long and bloody civil war against the U.S.-backed Contras -- a coalition of dissatisfied peasants, former Sandinista allies and Somozistas. A peace arrangement led to national elections in 1990, and Ortega and the Sandinistas were defeated by a right-centrist coalition led by Violeta Chamorro. Ortega relinquished the presidency in April 1991. He was interviewed for COLD WAR in September and October of 1997. This interview has been translated from Spanish. And NOW , the New President 2007.

 

My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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