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...The church has had a chequered relationship with Ortega since he first became president in 1979 when the Sandinistas ousted Anastasio Somoza....
...“Ortega will begin his fourth consecutive term by force through repression, censorship and fear,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director of Human Rights Watch....
...Violeta Granera, an opposition activist, José Pallais, a former foreign minister, José Adán Aguerri, former head of the biggest business lobby, Cosep, have also been detained....
...José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group, said that with the anti-“traitor” law in force “there is little to no hope of free and fair elections in Nicaragua”....
...The boys crowd round their father, Jose Adán, who fought for the contras in the mountains....
...The country’s first dictator, José Santos Zelaya, was driven from power with American help in 1909. Two decades of US military presence in the country followed....
...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....
...Mr Ortega, a Sandinista revolutionary who helped topple dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, then headed the junta that ruled Nicaragua and is now on his second term as president, is under fire at home and...
...“This is mushrooming,” José Rizo, a former vice-president, told the FT from his home in northern Nicaragua, as calls for the president to leave multiplied....
...Nicaragua’s protests erupted in mid-April when Mr Ortega, who helped fell the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1978 and is now on his third term as president, bungled a social security reform....
...Despite as many as 448 deaths since protests began on April 18, Mr Ortega, a former machine gun-toting Marxist revolutionary who helped topple dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, has resisted economic and...
...But a text attributed to Roberto Samcan, the retired former head of the Sandinista Popular Army which was set up after the revolution overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, has also been circulating...
...Will he turn out to be the same unbridled revolutionary who toppled the bloody dictatorship of General Anastasio Somoza in a blaze of gunfire in 1979, chanting “We fight the Yankees, enemy of humanity”?...
...in central Managua, a primary school teacher guides children around exhibits from Nicaragua’s 1979 revolution: two rusting tanks seized by leftwing Sandinista rebels from the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza...
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