Daniel Ortega Saavedra

SORDID RUMORS HAD BEEN circulating in Managua for years, but few people believed them, and nobody mentioned them in public, for they concerned a man with an almost mythic hold on the Nicaraguan imagination: Daniel Ortega Saavedra.

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Subslug: [Letter from Daniel Ortega Saavedra, secretary general of the FSLN

* D. Ortega Congratulates Castro on Elections 1993

Subslug: [Letter from Daniel Ortega Saavedra, secretary general of the FSLN

* D. Ortega Congratulates Castro on Elections 1993

Subslug: [Letter from Daniel Ortega Saavedra, secretary general of the FSLN

* D. Ortega Congratulates Castro on Elections 1993

Subslug: [Letter from Daniel Ortega Saavedra, secretary general of the FSLN

* D. Ortega Congratulates Castro on Elections 1993

President-elect Daniel Ortega Saavedra; date not given] [Text] Dear Companero: On behalf of our party, our government, and our people, I wish to send you our most sincere and warm congratulations for your election by the Nicaraguan people as president of that sister republic.

CASTRO HAILS ORTEGA ELECTION VICTORY 1984