Critical Essay by Patrick Humphries
Critics of the Clash will welcome "Sandinista" with fangs open, as it confirms just why they dislike the band so much.
The title alone reeks of th...
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Critical Essay by Van Gosse
Confronting the Clash's epic monstrosity Sandinista! is like being a teacher … and having one of your favorite little buggers show up one day and say, ...
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Critical Essay by John Piccarella
Nothing could have helped get me through the unreal mass depression—the mourning ten years too late for the death of the Sixties and the Beatles that grew out...
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A former ally of President Daniel Ortega said Friday that he was willing to look at forming a legislative alliance with the new leader, a move that would give the new government the majority it nee...
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MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan President Daniel
Ortega defied Congress Thursday and issued a decree to allow
the immediate creation of citizens' councils, which a majority
of lawmakers oppose. The...
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Managua (dpa) - Former guerrilla leader Daniel Ortega celebrates
his first 100 days as Nicaraguan head of state Friday, after the same
voters who once ousted his movement re...
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Managua (dpa) - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega condemned
Thursday's decision by a US court to free a Cuban exile sought by
Cuba and Venezuela on terrorism charges.
...
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Managua (dpa) - The former Sandinista guerrilla fighter Daniel
Ortega on Thursday is to complete his first year back in power in a
peacetime Nicaragua after his troubled fir...
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Daniel
Ortega
of the leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), who had served as
Nicaragua
's president from 1984 to 1990, was on Nov. 5, 2006, again elected to the top post.
Ortega...
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Area: 130,373 sq km (50,337 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 5,233,000Capital:
Managua
Head of state and government:
President
Enrique Bolaños
Geyer
The presidential and legislative elections...
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Daniel Ortega, who led a Marxist government that spent the 1980s fighting U.S.-backed insurgents, returns to power Wednesday promising to respect free trade and private business and maintain relati...
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A former president convicted of money laundering and embezzlement was freed from the conditions of his parole and allowed to travel around the country, a move critics said Saturday was a ploy by Pr...
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Former President Leon Febres Cordero, whose center-right Social Christian Party long dominated Ecuadorean politics, has resigned from Congress and political life, citing unspecified medical problem...
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