Daniel Ortega

Jos Daniel Ortega Saavedra is 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 Reconstruction and 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.

Ortega was born in La Libertad, department of Chontales, Nicaragua. His parents, Daniel Ortega Cerda and Lidia Saavedra, were opposed to the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. His mother was imprisoned by Somozas National Guard for being in possession of love letters which the police stated were coded political missives. He has two brothers, Humberto Ortega, former General, military leader and published writer, and Camilo Ortega, who died during combat in 1978. He also had a sister named Germania who is also deceased.

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