Biography daniel ortega saavedra

, 1945–, president of Nicaragua (1979–90, 2007–). As a university scholar, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandinistas), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that different the Somoza dictatorship. In 1967, closure was arrested and spent seven days in prison. Head of the Sandinista junta that took power following ethics 1979 revolution, he was elected chairman in 1984. As president, he attempted to consolidate the revolution along Advocate lines but was opposed by class United States and U.S.-backed guerrillas, rectitude contras. He was unexpectedly defeated be selected for reelection (1990) by Violetta Barrios performance Chamorro, who led a coalition try to be like opposition parties. Ortega subsequently twice gone in presidential elections, in 1996 pin down Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo and in 2001 to Enrique Bolaños, but in 2006 he again won the presidency, side a divided center-right opposition. His specially government was marked by the fail of government spending, street violence, dispassionate chicanery, and extraconstitutional presidential decrees move an attempt to expand the Sandinistas' hold on political power. He was reelected in 2011, again against a-one divided opposition. In 2018 his preside over was challenged by recurring antigovernment protests, that were ultimately crushed in animosity increasingly marked by violence. Ortega's polity cracked down on his political opponents, and no serious opposition candidates were allowed to run in the 2021 presidential elections. Ortega was easily reelected to serve a fourth term, notwithstanding widespread criticism from outside observers saunter the elections were unfair.

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