Tag: Daniel Ortega

• Wednesday, December 14th 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Latam “progressive” countries openly supported tyrants despised by ”Arab Spring”

  

  The so called ‘progressive’ Latin American governments not only did they not support the revolution wave later known as the “Arab Spring” but openly and repeatedly backed the regimes against which the peoples of those countries rebelled.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:25 UTC

  Re-election for Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, continent’s poorest nation

  

  Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, a former Marxist guerrilla leader, was headed for a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. Preliminary results showed Ortega, who has cemented his hold on power with social spending for the poor, had 63.7% support based on a count of votes from 18% of polling stations.