Ortega Calls On Rich to Lift Nicaragua Out of Poverty

Evening Standard - London › January 11, 2007

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FORMER Marxist guerrilla and Cold War veteran Daniel Ortega returned to power in Nicaragua yesterday.

The 61-year-old was sworn in almost 17 years after voters, tired of civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, threw him out of office. The Sandinista leader won a November presidential election on promises to fight hunger, poverty and corruption. In an emotional victory speech at a rally in the capital Managua, the leftist leader called on the nation's elite, who often avoid paying taxes, to help drag the country out of economic oblivion.

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Ortega Calls On Rich to Lift Nicaragua Out of Poverty

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