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Posted: Aug 15, 2007 6:44 a.m. - Subject: Nicaragua Building Ties With Iran
Nicaragua Building Ties With Iran
Nicaragua’s new left-wing president has begun building a strategic alliance with Iran, calling America a "terrorist nation."
The president, Daniel Ortega, is no stranger to Americans. Back in the 1970s and 1980s he headed the Sandinista junta that ruled Nicaragua with the support of Castro’s Cuba and the Soviet Union.
Ortega and the Sandinistas were ousted from power — though they kept control of the state police — after a plebiscite in 1990 gave pro-democracy forces control of the nation’s parliament.