NICARAGUA: EL COMANDANTE RETURNS

Abstract: 

Carlos Chamorro provides a perspective on the recent election of Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.

For his presidential campaign erstwhile revolutionary, Daniel Ortega chose a former Contra as his running mate, changed his party’s color from red to a diluted pink, and watered down his fiery Leninist rhetoric to “peace, love, and reconciliation” with a John Lennon soundtrack.

Author: 
Francisca Ortega
Publication date: 
January 9, 2007
Publication type: 
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article