Standing awkwardly behind a microphone in a new suit and tie, he looked like a timid substitute teacher or possibly a computer whiz before a job interview -anything but what he really was: the uncompromising leader of Nicaragua's pro-Marxist Sandinista regime. Comandante Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who is running in his government's first presidential elections on Nov. 4, spent the past two weeks stumping across the U.S. Accompanied by his wife and an entourage of eleven Nicaraguan officials and ten Secret Service men, Ortega was attempting to woo Americans away from President...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In