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Article Excerpt
A formidable adversary to the presidential aspirations of Frente Sandinista para la Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) perennial candidate Daniel Ortega has arisen in the person of Herty Lewites, longtime party leader and popular ex-mayor of Managua (see NotiCen, 2000-11-09). Lewites learned there is more risk than reward in challenging Ortega, the ex-president of Nicaragua (1979-1990) and maximum leader of the party. Lewites has, so far in his quest, suffered death threats, expulsion from the party, allegations of criminal activities, and loss of the brass ring. In return, the former mayor could split the party and lose the election for the party in 2006. He could also foment a revolution within the FSLN.
Ortega has tried to regain the presidency three times since his 1990 loss to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997), whose US-supported UNO party trounced the FMLN in an upset that shocked the left. Lewites was told to butt out of the present contest early on, but in mid-February threw down the gauntlet in defiance of Tomas Borge, ex-minister of interior of the Sandinista government.
Borge led the most hard-line left faction of the party during those years and continues to do...
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