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Daniel Ortega Takes Power in Nicaragua

2007-01-10

Former guerilla rebel leader Daniel Ortega takes office as President in Nicaragua today for the second time. Ortega was despised by the Reagan administration while he served as president of Nicaragua in the 1980s. Beginning in 1981, first covertly, then openly, the Reagan administration recruited, trained, and equipped a proxy force, known as the Contra that attacked agricultural cooperatives, schools and health centers and targeted teachers, health and religious workers. Nan McCurdy has more.

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