Because it was bankrupt, Cuba was forced to stop propping up the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
The Sandinista-run Supreme Electoral Council maintains that 90 percent of the eligible voters have been registered.
Montealegre has fractured the anti-Sandinista democrats and his candidacy seems likely to precipitate their defeat.
The United States should be fully prepared to help a Nicaragua truly free of Sandinista rule.
All six were Sandinista appointees--even though the court's six-member constitutional panel includes three Liberal magistrates.
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In response to the Ortega victory, Mr. Chavez chanted "long live the Sandinista revolution!"
In 1990, Violeta Chamorro was sworn in as president of Nicaragua having defeated Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
The Sandinista party had won a decisive amount of victories in stark contrast to public opinion polls.
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Despite these odds, the Bush Administration must go all out to prevent such an ominous Sandinista victory.
Polls and feelings among Nicaraguans show discontent with the Sandinista leadership under Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega Saavedra.
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His Sandinista Front is a personal fief from which he has expelled those who challenge his leadership.
At that point, both the resistance and Sandinista forces should be disarmed under the supervision of the IADB.
With 19 comrades he stormed the Nicaraguan congress in 1978, in a spectacular publicity boost for the Sandinista movement.
But most Nicaraguans have other priorities than judging whether the Sandinista revolution has been a success, or a fraud.
He will hope that trend will be bucked by Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader, in Nicaragua's election next month.
The overwhelming Sandinista victory in the municipal elections does not reflect such sentiment and thus suspicions of fraud are justified.
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The Sandinista party has won a decisive number of victories in stark contrast to what public opinion polls have indicated.
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Daniel Ortega is now the leader of the opposition and hopes to be the Sandinista presidential candidate in the next elections.
The US similarly failed to support Nicaraguan democrats in their electoral fight against Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega in the 2007 elections.
Second, this Sandinista defeat is all the more remarkable for the extraordinary lengths the Nicaraguan government went to to preclude that result.
In June of 2008, the Nicaraguan Supreme Electoral Council disqualified opposition political parties including Sandinista Renovation Movement and the Conservative Party from participating.
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The Center for Security Policy today urged the Bush Administration immediately to denounce Sandinista efforts to rig the upcoming presidential elections in Nicaragua.
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Official results show Sandinista candidates winning 94 of the 146 municipal mayorships, compared to 46 for the main opposition Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC).
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These remarks came after elements linked with the Sandinista government tried to undermine protesters and block their demonstrations in a rather violent way.
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In the 1980s the most powerful Sandinista leaders were Marxists who worked with Cuba to supply weapons to guerrillas in neighbouring El Salvador.
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Mr Lewites was himself a former Sandinista, who served as tourism minister in the 1980s before becoming a popular mayor of Managua, the capital.
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These institutions which foundered due to Sandinista policies in the early 1980s are urgently needed to stimulate intra-regional trade and economic growth.
In 1963 Ortega joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which took its name from Sandino, and in 1967 became leader of the organization.
Of course the declaration by the national assembly (which was blocked by the Sandinista legislators) speaks volumes for the value of these Latin American democracies.
In Nicaragua, Mr. Shannon advocated the continuation of U.S. aid to the Sandinista government despite evidence of overwhelming fraud in the 2008 mayoral race in Managua.
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