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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.

Ortega, a former guerilla, originally ruled as primus inter pares of the FSLN’s nine-member National Directorate, the governing body of the party, which was supposed to rule in line with the ...

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 ...

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.

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

After Somoza’s rule was overthrown, Mr. Ortega became a member of the five-person ‘Junta of National Reconstruction’ that ruled the country and soon became the face of the government as it ...

Ortega was a member of the revolutionary junta that drove Anastasio Somoza from power in 1979 and was elected president in 1985.

Daniel Ortega, 34, is accused of killing a longtime Las Vegas Athletic Club employee and injuring at least three other people. Police shot Ortega as he was exiting the gym after his gun jammed.

He was a member of the Sandinista Junta that replaced brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza after the 1979 revolution and was elected president in 1984. He ruled for six years and returned to the ...

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 ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, changed his political stripes and is now clinging to power alongside his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo. But the ...