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3 unusual facts about Daniel Ortega


Daniel Ortega

Soon after his inauguration, Ortega paid an official visit to Iran and met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Eduardo Montealegre

Montealegre objects to an alliance, referred to in the popular media as "El Pacto", between Arnoldo Alemán and Daniel Ortega, who ran as the candidate of the FSLN in 2006 for the fourth consecutive time since his 1985-1990 presidency, this time successfully.

Lucía Andrea Morett Álvarez

It was not because Lucía Morett had left the country in the direction of Nicaragua, invited by President Daniel Ortega for several months.


Carlos Lehder

Other major Medellín cartel associates fled to the protection of Manuel Noriega in Panama, but when Pablo Escobar discovered Noriega was plotting to betray him to the U.S. in return for amnesty, the cartel associates then fled to Nicaragua to seek the assistance of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.

José Rizo Castellón

Rizo was nominated as the PLC's presidential candidate for the 2006 election in which he finished in third place behind Daniel Ortega and Eduardo Montealegre, receiving 25.11% of the vote.

La Libertad, Chontales

It is the birthplace of the President Daniel Ortega and of Miguel Cardinal Obando Bravo.

Paul A. Trivelli

Trivelli was the source of much controversy for his remarks about the 2006 Nicarguan presidential election and his warnings about U.S. economic retailiation if Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega won the election.


see also

Fourth ballot box

Nicaraguan fourth ballot box, a political initiative by Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega

Nicaraguan general election, 2011

The head of accompanying mission of the European Union (EU), Luis Yáñez called the triumph of Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista Front in the Nicaraguan General Elections indubitable and ruled out any possibility of fraud during them.