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Daniel Ortega:
Daniel Ortega, a leader of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua, overthrew Nicaraguan dictator Antonio Somoza in 1979. While serving as president from 1985 to 1990, he suspended the Nicaraguan constitution, curtained freedom of the press and violated human rights. During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan strongly opposed Ortega's attempts to spread communist revolution to other nations of Central America. |