Daniel Ortega
Daniel Ortega
José Daniel Ortega Saavedrais a Nicaraguan politician who has been President of Nicaragua since 2007; previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstructionand then as President. A leader in the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front, his policies in government have seen the implementation of leftist reforms across Nicaragua...
NationalityNicaraguan
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth11 November 1945
CityLa Libertad, Nicaragua
CountryNicaragua
Today the winds of hope blow through Latin America and the Caribbean.
To be selected as one of the top 25 players in your age group in the nation says a lot.
Rambo only exists in the movies.
Legalisation doesn't make sense.
One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.
We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.
This subject brings pain and sadness, and also indignation at the manipulation,
We are going to wait for the moment of the debate, and we'll make the decision,
We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.
Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.
During the meeting with President Carter, we proposed the development of a new kind of relationship with the United States.