Nicaragua: Why President Ortega Is Likely to Be Re-elected

Daniel Ortega's closet is filled with skeletons that would terrify the bravest of campaign handlers. The 65-year-old Nicaraguan President — once the mustachioed Marxist in olive fatigues who bedeviled the Reagan Administration in the 1980s — has admitted to murdering a National Guardsman in 1967, been convicted of bank robbery, accused by a stepdaughter of sexual abuse and by Miskito Indians of ...