This is an edited extract of the introduction to ‘Revolutionary Thought in the 20th Century’ (1980) edited by Ben Turok
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/ 11 January 2007
Former Marxist guerrilla and Cold War veteran Daniel Ortega returned to power in Nicaragua on Wednesday and celebrated another leftist election triumph in Latin America with United States foe Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Ortega (61) was sworn in almost 17 years after voters, tired of a vicious civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, threw him out of office.
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/ 6 November 2006
Nicaraguans voted in huge numbers for a new president on Sunday with former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega close to returning to power despite opposition from the United States. Sixteen years after he was thrown out of office by voters tired of a civil war with US-backed Contra rebels, the mustachioed Sandinista leader was ahead of his conservative rivals.