Poll: Ortega leads in Nicaragua
Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, whose socialist government was a major antagonist of the United States in the 1980s, topped all presidential contenders in a poll released Monday. Ortega, who led the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979 and fought the U.S.-backed Contra rebels as Nicaragua’s president from 1985-1990, had 32 percent support in a survey by M&R Consultores published in the Nicaraguan daily newspaper La Prensa and broadcast by TV Canal 2. Full Story