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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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Daniel Ortega Saavedra hit the road at 5 a.m., bound for the northwestern city of Ocotal, where several thousand supporters awaited him.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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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But as he went to Stockholm to accept it in mid-December, he received the unsettling news that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had announced plans for a large military buildup.

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Former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, who the morning after his defeat proclaimed, "We were born poor, and we'll be satisfied to die poor," had a last-minute change of heart.

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