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 needs to pass laws.In comments to reporters, former President Arnoldo...

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 relations with Washington.Yet he will be sworn in as Nicaraguan president in a ceremony attended by some...

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 President Daniel Ortega to weaken the opposition.Former president Arnoldo Aleman, who acknowledged...

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 problems.Congressman Alfonso Harb, a top-ranking Social Christian Party official, made the announcement Friday on Febres Cordero's behalf soon after the new...

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 of the grief over John Lennon's murder—than the release of the Clash's Sandinista! a few days later. Its three records—thirty-six tracks to get lost in—ask and answer some of the right questions about violence and nonviolence, history and the future, crime and the law, revolution and fascism, worldwide angst a...

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, "Gee, Mr. Gosse, you know that story we were s'posed to hand in today?" "Yeah kid I know your dog ate it." "No sir, I did this instead." And he hands you a three-volume memoir, in crayon. Thanks a lot, you say, resisting the urge to dismember. Tell them it's fab fingerpainting and next week...

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 the political "awareness" which many find so glibly unattractive….