Daniel Ortega and the Crazy Turn of Power

La Repubblica

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

The current president of the Central American country was elected in 2007, but he had already held the same office from January 10, 1985 to April 25, 1990, during the Sandinist revolution. This period is remembered above all for his autocratic imprint that imposed a strong limitation of personal freedoms. And it is on this peculiarity of the first mandate that Saverio Tutino wrote the article of October 23, 1985 that we propose again