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...Carmen Ortega says that as a single mother she would be at a loss without the support that comes from Padre Willy. “I don’t know what to say. I get help here, but not from anywhere else.”...
...Juan José is digging a latrine on the small, 8m by 25m plot the government of Daniel Ortega has given him to build a house....
...“Nicaragua needs as early an exit as possible,” said José Adán Aguerri, head of the largest business chamber, last week....
...“What’s more, he doesn’t want to be like Chávez, or Trump, or that Nicaraguan thug Ortega,” he elaborated....
...“Maduro will resume and deepen [former President Hugo] Chávez’s original socialist ideas to further weaken private property rights,” he predicted....
...“I can’t import oak barrels to mature my wine,” cries José Manuel Ortega, a fine winemaker, in exasperation. “Yet for every $1 of imported oak, I can export $15 of wine....
...President Evo Morales of Bolivia, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and José Mujica of Uruguay were all expected to take part in a government-organised rally on Thursday, while other regional allies including Argentina...
...José Adán Aguerri, head of the country’s influential Cosep business association, says the relationship with Mr Ortega is “constructive and fluid”....
...But in a city sometimes called the “capital of Latin America” there are also pockets of hostility to Bolivia’s Evo Morales, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega....
...Jaime Ortega, Havana’s cardinal, subsequently negotiated the lifting of a ban on marches by the Ladies in White, a group of wives and mothers of political prisoners....
...Having the sector under state control will certainly do nothing to help, it was working just fine already,” said José Grasso Vecchio, a Caracas-based analyst....
...He later stormed out of the summit meeting during a speech by Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, who supported Mr Chávez’s comments, as did the vice-president of Cuba, Carlos Lage....
...In his concluding remarks, Mr Chávez called José María Aznar, Spain’s former prime minister,a “fascist”....
...It is no secret that Mr Chávez has been following Mr Ortega’s rise closely....
...The US is in no doubt that outright victory for Mr Ortega on Sunday would be disastrous for Nicaragua, and has warned that it would also give Mr Chávez a foothold in the region....
...If the US government is intent on stopping Mr Ortega – and preventing Mr Chávez from gaining a foothold in the region – it will be hoping that Nicaraguans have long memories....
...…and so does Daniel Ortega A month to go yet before the Nicaraguan elections, and Daniel Ortega, candidate for the left-wing Sandinistas and Mr Chávez’s preferred choice, is still ahead....
...Ortega is striving to make his alliance with Chávez compatible with maintaining IMF support....
...Chavez’s government supplies over 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 11 Central American and Caribbean countries under the terms of the 1980 San Jose accord and the 2000 Caracas Energy Accord, and over 100,000bpd...
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