丹尼尔·奥尔塔省

出生时的名称：Jos Daniel Ortega Saavedra

自20世纪80年代以来，Daniel Ortega一直是尼加拉瓜最着名的政治人物。他两次选出该国总统：1984年，并于2006年再次。从奥塔格的初期是一个革命倾向的政治愿望，1963年的挖掘学院与叫做Frente Sandinista de liseracin Nacional的地下政治集团（也称为Sandinista国家解放前，FSLN或，俗气，Sandinistas）。Ortega被赋予城市抵抗武器的领导者，这是针对统治Somoza家族的美国培训的力量，但1967年，他被判入狱，为银行抢劫，然后排放到古巴七年。The Sandinistas came to power in 1979 by overthrowing Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and Ortega was elected president in 1984. Ortega's years in office were dominated by the civil war and factional turmoil.此外，FSLN和Ortega由美国总统谴责罗纳德里根他们的马克思主义者意识形态及其对苏联和苏联的密切联系Fidel Castro.古巴。美国融资了一批反革命国或对联，使用通过将武器销售给伊朗在非法计划运行的情况下获得的资金奥利弗北。(This became the Iran-Contra scandal in the U.S. in 1986-87.) Ortega lost his bid for re-election in 1990. The FSLN remained the biggest political party in Nicaragua but was dogged by accusations of corruption, and Ortega lost two more presidential races in 1996 and 2001. Ortega was finally able to cobble together enough unlikely political alliances to regain the presidency in the elections of November 2006. Ortega has toned down his anti-capitalist stance over the years, but his ties to Castro and Venezuela's雨果查韦斯加剧了许多美国政策制定者，特别是那些乔治W.布什行政。