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« on: November 03, 2006, 01:51:12 PM »

So far it seems that the washed up Sandinista leader has lost everything revolutionary about him, him and his far right opponents agree on many issues, so should this election still be something to look out for when it comes to anti-imperialism or will he be just another Lula?

1. He opposes all forms of abortion rights, including abortion to save a woman's life http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-abort26oct26,0,7331168.story?coll=la-home-headlines

2. He claims to have "found God and lost Marx".

3. His running mate is a former leader of the U.S.-backed, fascist "Contra" terrorist group.

4. He promised there will be no land seizures or nationalisation of corporations if he's elected.
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2006, 08:34:56 PM »

Maybe Chavez and Morales can set him right again.
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« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2006, 09:43:12 PM »

There are problems with Morales himself as his nationalization of gas and oil resources will still keep contracts with mostly foreign multinationals, there is no plan to distribute the vast oil wealth to the people as Chavez is doing in Venezuela, basically there will only be face value reform, he has already stated he does not plan to help abolish capitalism and actually plans to develop Andean capitalism, he is not truly bringing about any revolutionary change but he is one of the more radical reformists in Latin America
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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2006, 09:25:23 PM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/wl_nm/nicaragua_election_dc_33

 Nicaragua's Ortega promises no radical reforms

By Kieran Murray2 hours, 31 minutes ago

Nicaraguan leftist President-elect Daniel Ortega promised on Wednesday he would not push for radical economic reforms, trying to ease U.S. and business leaders' fears about his Marxist past.

Ortega, who led Nicaragua through a civil war with U.S.-backed Contra rebels in the 1980s, swept back to power in Sunday's presidential election a full 16 years after voters threw out his revolutionary Sandinista government.

Washington worries Ortega will join a bloc of radical leaders in Latin America headed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, his friend and ally. Some in Nicaragua fear that could spark a new confrontation with the United States.

Ortega, 60, tried to allay concerns over his plans. "I am not contemplating dramatic, radical changes in the economy, which has stabilized in recent years," he said.

In the 1980s, the Sandinistas confiscated many businesses and lands. Combined with the fierce Contra rebellion and a U.S. economic blockade, the policies plunged the coffee-producing nation into chaos and wrecked ambitious anti-poverty plans.

Ortega was voted out of power in 1990. He says he has learned his lesson and struck a conciliatory tone in meetings with business groups and church leaders on Wednesday.

He vowed to prevent land seizures and work with the International Monetary Fund to protect hard-won economic stability even as he attacks the widespread poverty that led voters to give him another chance.

Ortega has dropped Marxism for a center-left program and business leaders who fiercely opposed him during the civil war offered him the benefit of the doubt this week, while keeping a close eye on his policy statements.

"There are worries, some apprehension. A lot of people were affected in the 1980s and the person who led that process is now president-elect," Erwin Kruger, president of the country's leading business group, Cosep, told Reuters.

A main concern for Washington is Ortega's friendship with Venezuela's Chavez, who is challenging U.S. influence across Latin America and using petrodollars to support his allies.

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Ortega will try to walk a political tightrope, pulling in help from Chavez and Cuban President Fidel Castro for anti-poverty programs without upsetting the United States.

Many think it will be an impossible balancing act.

"For the United States, the idea of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua united is a terrible image," said Sergio Ramirez, who was once Ortega's vice president but later fell out with him.

Both Venezuela and the United States made their positions clear as soon as Ortega's victory was confirmed on Tuesday.

The White House said he would have to earn U.S. support by showing his commitment to democracy, while Chavez claimed a new ally in his so-called Bolivarian revolution, named after 19th- century South American liberation hero Simon Bolivar.

"Now like never before, the Sandinista revolution and the Bolivarian revolution are together. On to build the future, the socialism of the 21st century!" Chavez told Ortega in a telephone chat broadcast on Venezuelan state television.

Chavez has extended his influence in Latin America by offering preferential energy deals to allies and paying for free medical care and literacy for thousands in the region.

Ortega will need that kind of help as he tries to shore up support in the second-poorest nation in the Americas.

In the 1980s, Cuban doctors and Soviet aid poured into Nicaragua to defend the Sandinista revolution.

They ultimately failed but many Nicaraguans hope Chavez has similar plans, this time without sparking the kind of violence that killed 30,000 people two decades ago.

"This is a poor country. We need schools, oil, jobs. Daniel can't do it himself and the Americans won't help him. Chavez will help us," said Antonio Rios, a part-time laborer.

Some worry Ortega is still a radical at heart.

"I don't trust him. With friends like Chavez and Castro, I don't think he has changed," said Alejandra Barrios at a shopping center in the capital, Managua. "We don't want to go back to the past. But this man is going to take us there."

(Additional reporting by Ivan Castro)
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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2006, 09:32:12 PM »

 Ortega: I'm not the same revolutionary

By FILADELFO ALEMAN, Associated Press WriterTue Nov 7, 8:58 PM ET

Daniel Ortega says he's not the same revolutionary the United States once tried to overthrow.

The Sandinista leader won his fifth bid for the presidency preaching harmony, love and reconciliation, often with the music of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" playing in the background.

Ortega, whose businessman father opposed Anastasio Somoza's dictatorship and fought U.S. occupation from 1927 to 1934, joined the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1963 and led its urban resistance. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1967, then released in 1974 after the group kidnapped several top government officials.

He was elected president at the age of 39 in 1984, five years after Somoza's ouster, as the country was in the middle of a war against Contra rebels financed and organized by Washington. Under Sandinista rule, the local currency devalued 33,000 percent and foreign debt ballooned to $12 billion.

But before he lost the presidency to Violeta Chamorro in 1990, Ortega lowered illiteracy rates from 60 percent to 12 percent and built a free health care system.

He also confiscated many homes, including the estate of a former Contra spokesman, Jaime Morales, who is now his vice president. He reconciled with Morales recently by paying him for the sprawling complex.

Ortega has made three unsuccessful runs for the presidency — in 1990, 1996 and 2001 — and used congressional immunity to dodge rape allegations filed by a stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez. He has denied the charges, but Narvaez continues to push her case publicly.

The father of nine children — seven with his wife and campaign manager, Rosario Murillo — Ortega is known to enjoy ranchera music. But his favorite song is Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

Now 60 and balding, he has toned down his revolutionary rhetoric, invoking both Lennon and God and promising to favor free trade policies and improve health care and education.

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Sounds like he is officially a counter-revolutionary.  Funny, he has become so enamored by power that he has forgotten everything that he fought for and sent others to die for.  He would have killed who he is now back during the war.  Truly a sad, tragic figure.
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