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Ortega Saavedra

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[awr-te-gah sah-ah-ve-thrah] / ɔrˈtɛ gɑ ˌsɑ ɑˈvɛ ðrɑ /

noun

  1. (José) Daniel born 1945, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1985–90.


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She faced down demands that Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel's brother, keep his post as army commander.

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Three days later, in a grand reception room at the National Palace in Guatemala City, five Central American Presidents, including Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega Saavedra, proclaimed they had reached their own "historic compromise."

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President Jimmy Carter arrived with word that President Daniel Ortega Saavedra was willing to concede defeat.

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In one of his final acts as Nicaragua's President, Daniel Ortega Saavedra demanded that the contras disarm before Chamorro's inauguration this week and suggested that failure to cooperate might jeopardize the peaceful transfer of power.

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Administration officials were publicly gracious to outgoing President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, careful to praise his commitment to fair elections and his apparent reasonableness -- so far -- in defeat.

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