Nearly two decades since his Sandinista government battled U.S.-financed contra rebels, Ortega is poised to win back the country's presidency Sunday by the narrowest of margins, a victory that would once again bring him to the front lines of Latin America's raging ideological battles over the U.S. vision for the hemisphere. (more)
Ronald Reagan, who sacrificed the dignity of our country and the sanctity of our constitution (not to mention really fouling up the Iran-Iraq situation in the process) to remove Ortega from power once referred to Ortega's enemies, the drug-trafficking, gun-running, Somazo death-squadding contras as the "moral equivalent of our founding fathers."
The former president could not be reached for comment at his new permanent retreat:
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