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Article: Daniel Ortega: Tim Gaynor in Nicaragua talks with one of the key architects of the Sandinista revolution.
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- New Internationalist
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- July 1, 1999
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IT is now two decades since the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) marched triumphantly into the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. But Daniel Ortega, one of the key strategists of that revolution, has not lost his enthusiasm for the Sandinista vision of a more just society.
Twenty years ago a hard-fought guerrilla war forced the US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza into exile and a new mood of hope and possibility buoyed the country's poor majority. Sadly, the intervening years have not been kind to Nicaragua or to the Sandinista's egalitarian dream. The desperately-poor Central American country has endured a deadly civil war, a brutal US-led economic ...