Opinion by Charles Lane: Nicaragua’s political future emerges from Ortega’s political prison
Of the six 20th-century greats Henry Kissinger profiled in his recent book, “Leadership,” three — Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Charles de Gaulle of France and Konrad Adenauer of Germany — were affected by stints in political detention or, in de Gaulle’s case, as a prisoner of war.by Nicaragua’s Somoza family dictatorship.
Ortega lost an election in 1990 but regained power in 2007 with 38 percent of the vote. Following that election, he gradually dismantled democracy and engineered the domination he wields now. The song about birds and other tunes she sang in El Chipote were originally composed as pro-Sandinista revolutionary anthems, and are indeed still performed at pro-Ortega events.
7-year-old daughter, from whom she was separated by imprisonment — and who remains behind with family in Central America.Yet Davila insists it is possible to wage an effective political campaign from abroad. On March 30,, calling on the assembled ambassadors to “act for a democratic transition in my country.”
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