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Daniel Ortega

Type: Person

Name: Daniel Ortega

Title: Leader

Organization: Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)

Date of Birth: 11/11/1946

Place of Birth: La Libertad, Nicaragua

Nationality: Nicaragua

Fact Sheet: Biography for Daniel Ortega

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Daniel Ortega

Electric Power - Regional - Roundup: Subsidies, energy efficiency, PPP bill, new office

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega approved a reform to the energy stability law to maintain a subsidy for clients that use less than 150kW/month. This category represents 86% of power consumers, mor... ... [Published Business News Americas - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Electrical Power, Daniel Ortega

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Nicaragua announces plans for transoceanic canal

President says the country will move forward with $40 billion canal project, pending feasibility studies.The planned canal would traverse Lake Nicaragua.A transoceanic canal through Nicaragua has long been a dream in that country. Many have tried, and ... [Published Latin Business Chronicle - May 21 2013]

Entities: Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Costa Rica

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Indigenous Nicaraguans Fight to the Death for Their Last Forest

(IPS) - Mayangna indigenous communities in northern Nicaragua are caught up in a life-and-death battle to defend their ancestral territory in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve from the destruction wrought by invading settlers and illegal logging.The president ... [Published Upside Down World - May 20 2013]

Entities: Biosphere, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, Buffer Zone

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales

Socialist Governments are "Rotten Potatoes"

The$ Cuban political dissident$ Guillermo Fariñas arrived in Tegucigalpa last week to participate in a conference sponsored by the$ ). The main theme of the conference was "Inclusive Democracy", and its focus was on women, youth, indigenous people, and ... [Published Hondurasweekly - May 20 2013]

Entities: Guillermo Fariñas, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, Democracy, Honduras

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Nicaragua’s President Accused of Sex Abuse by His Step Daughter

It’s been a bad month for Latin American autocrats. Earlier this month, onetime Guatemalan Generalissimo Efraín Rios Montt was found guilty of genocide and sentenced to 80 years in prison for his role in the Central American Cold War. Last week, Argentine ... [Published Daily Beast - May 20 2013]

Entities: Nicaragua, Sexual Abuse, Daniel Ortega

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

Nicaraguan President, Foreign Ministers to Visit Palestine, says Official

(WAFA) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and a number of foreign ministers and other officials are expected to visit Palestine in the next days and weeks, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said Thursday.He said at a press conference that Ortega has accepted ... [Published Palestine News Agency - May 18 2013]

Entities: United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul..., Daniel Ortega, John Kerry

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

AFP protests Nicaragua expulsion of photojournalist

Agence France-Presse sent a formal letter of protest to the Nicaraguan government on Monday following the arrest and subsequent expulsion of a Chilean photojournalist at the weekend.AFP photographer Hector Retamal, 37, was deported to Costa Rica on Saturday ... [Published Expatica France - May 13 2013]

Entities: Nicaragua, protest, Costa Rica, Rosario Murillo, Riyad Al-Maliki

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 2 reports

Photojournalist Detained in Nicaragua Released

Managua, May 12 (QNA) - Nicaragua has deported the Chilean Agence France-Presse photojournalist to Costa Rica after detaining him without charges for four days."I am happy to be free," Hector Retamal said upon his arrival at the airport in San Jose, the ... [Published Qatar News Agency - May 12 2013]

Entities: Nicaragua, Managua, Deportation

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Obama promises renewed ties with Central America on first of 2-day summit

The most powerful president in the world, Barack Obama, descended on the army-less country of Costa Rica Friday afternoon to meet with his counterparts from Central America and the Dominican Republic in a 22-hour summit that aims to strengthen economic ... [Published Individual.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Costa Rica, Barack Obama, Chinchilla, United States

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 2 reports

Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug war

President Obama says the nations should rely less on military means and focus more on infrastructure, education and energy.By Kathleen Hennessey and Tracy Wilkinson, SAN JOSE, Costa Rica President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday ... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 05 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Mexican Drug War, Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, Tracy Wilkinson, San Jose (San Jose, Costa Rica)

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 3 reports

Obama pitches economic cooperation to Latin American leaders

U.S. President Barack Obama made a pitch for regional economic cooperation Friday before sitting down to dinner with Latin American leaders. Before dining with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla and leaders of several other Central American nations ... [Published Individual.com - May 04 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Castillo (Dominican Republic), United States

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 2 reports

President Ortega to Attend PETROCARIBE Summit in Venezuela

03 de mayo de 2013, 16:26Managua, May 3 (Prensa Latina) The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, confirmed his participation in the upcoming Petrocaribe Summit of Heads of State and Government which will takes place on Sunday in Venezuela.As announced ... [Published Prensa Latina - May 03 2013]

Entities: PetroCaribe, Daniel Ortega, Venezuela, Nicaragua

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Electric Power - Regional - Roundup: Subsidies,... [Published Business News Americas - 10 hours ago]
May 21 - Annual Report [Published US Embassy Nicaragua: Managua - May 21 2013]
Nicaragua announces plans for transoceanic canal [Published Latin Business Chronicle - May 21 2013]
Indigenous Nicaraguans Fight to the Death for T... [Published Upside Down World - May 20 2013]
Socialist Governments are "Rotten Potatoes" [Published Hondurasweekly - May 20 2013]
Nicaragua’s President Accused of Sex Abuse by H... [Published Daily Beast - May 20 2013]
Peace in Colombia: Reality, Myth and Wishful T... [Published Indymedia Ireland - May 18 2013]
Nicaraguan President, Foreign Ministers to Visi... [Published Palestine News Agency - May 18 2013]
Canciller de Nicaragua viaja a Alemania para af... [Published Europe Online Magazine - May 16 2013]
Remarks by the President at a DNC Event -- New ... [Published The White House - May 14 2013]
Chavismo after Chavez [Published Korea Times - May 14 2013]
Latin America’s Radical Left in Power: Complexi... [Published Venezuelanalysis.com - May 14 2013]
AFP protests Nicaragua expulsion of photojourna... [Published Expatica France - May 13 2013]
AFP protests Nicaragua expulsion of photojourna... [Published XinMsn - May 13 2013]
Photojournalist Detained in Nicaragua Released [Published Qatar News Agency - May 12 2013]
Nicaragua studying possibility to claim more of... [Published Colombia Reports - May 12 2013]
Nicaragua deports AFP journalist [Published Voice of Russia - May 12 2013]
UNESCO Chief Visits 2 Biosphere Reserves in Nic... [Published Latin American Herald Tribune - May 10 2013]
UNESCO chief visits 2 biosphere reserves in Nic... [Published San Antonio La Prensa - May 09 2013]
UNESCO chief boosts projects in Nicaragua [Published CHINAdaily - May 09 2013]
PM Barrow returns from SICA meeting in Costa Rica [Published The San Pedro Sun - May 07 2013]
Stroudsburg sweeps MVC track & field championsh... [Published Pocono Record - May 07 2013]
Chávismo After Chávez [Published Project Syndicate - May 07 2013]
Petrocaribe Meets in Venezuela, Links With ALBA [Published Venezuelanalysis.com - May 07 2013]
Obama promises renewed ties with Central Americ... [Published Individual.com - May 06 2013]
Obama moots US exporting liquefied natural gas ... [Published KeralaNext.com - May 06 2013]
For Obama, Costa Rica offered rare 'safe bet' trip [Published Christian Science Monitor - May 05 2013]
Obama urges a new tack for Central America's dr... [Published Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - May 05 2013]
Martinelli calls for US-Panama natural gas deal [Published Newsroom Panama - May 05 2013]
Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug... [Published Los Angeles Times - May 05 2013]

Blogs

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Was Margaret Thatcher Really Responsible for *E... [Published Hit & Run - Apr 11 2013] <p><img alt="" height="300" src="http://reason.com/assets/mc/_external/2013_04/wake-up-maggie.jpg" title="Wake up Maggie!\|\|\|" width="300" style="float: right;"/>ViaReason contributing editor Michael Moynihan , now pushing pixels at The Daily Beast ...
Swirsky: "Speaker maligned for truth about Shar... [Published Atlas Shrugs - Apr 04 2013] You know things are worse than that when a little Jew can't give a talk at a synagogue on Long Island, New York. Joan Swirsky has a wonderful piece over at The Island': "Speaker maligned for truth about Sharia law" The Island, April 3, 2013On April ...
Drug War Do-Over: Can the U.S. Push Trafficking... [Published The China Blog - Apr 04 2013] The headlines in Nicaragua these days have a familiar echo. In what feels like a 30-year high school reunion, the reanimated socialist Sandinista Front, led by president Daniel Ortega, is rekindling its old revolutionary romance with Russia, which has ...
Drug War Do-Over: Can the U.S. Push Trafficking... [Published The Middle East Blog - TIME.com - Apr 04 2013] The headlines in Nicaragua these days have a familiar echo. In what feels like a 30-year high school reunion, the reanimated socialist Sandinista Front, led by president Daniel Ortega, is rekindling its old revolutionary romance with Russia, which has ...
Hugo Chavez Was No Outlier [Published HBR Blog Network - Mar 07 2013] With the passing of Hugo Chavez, it is important to understand the place of Chavez in the political history of Venezuela and of all Latin America. We should not think that socialist movements in Latin America will die simply because Chavez has died. ...

Audio/Video

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Nicaragua plans canal across Central America [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Dec 26 2012]

Press Releases

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DuVal Committee Co-Chairs Show Statewide Strength [Published CisionWire - English - Feb 28 2013]