Daniel Ortega News from United Press International. Top News . U.S. News; ... Ortega became a member of the ruling multipartisan Junta of National Reconstruction and was later elected president, ...

Ortega was hardly the most romantic or photogenic of the new five-member junta, but his communication skills pushed him to the forefront and he effectively became leader of the country.

Along with many men and women of my generation, Ortega and Murillo among them, I became a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), joining the movement in 1970. Even as a small child ...

A video shows the moment cops took out gunman Daniel Ortega after he shot up Las Vegas Athletic Club — where he was planning a mass killing before his gun jammed, according to officials.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Daniel Ortega was a young, victorious revolutionary in olive fatigues and oversize glasses when Jimmy Carter welcomed him to the White House in 1979 and asked him to “be ...

The Kinder, Gentler Daniel Ortega The Kinder, ... Among them is Sergio Ramírez, an original Sandinista junta member and renowned author ejected from the party by Ortega for his dissident views.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashes out at a century of what he called terroristic U.S ... Ortega was a member of the revolutionary junta that drove Anastasio Somoza from power in 1979 and ...

Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Jamie Prosser briefs members of the media about Daniel Ortega, identified as the shooter at the Las Vegas Athletic Club, at Metro headquarters ...

If one were to emerge in 2021 out of a time capsule hidden in 1979 and were to meet Daniel Ortega, ... Mr. Ortega became a member of the five-person ‘Junta of National Reconstruction’ that ...

Police said Ortega was also carrying extra ammunition and magazines on him when the shooting took place. Ortega is a North Las Vegas resident and according to police, was a member of the gym.

A U.N. human rights groups said Thursday the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega executed at least 40 people and ordered hospitals not to treat demonstrators wounded in antigovernment ...

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Daniel Ortega, the rebel leader driven from power 16 years ago by a U.S.-backed war and the missteps of his own Sandinista movement, was cruising Monday toward victory and ...