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...polls is former President Daniel Ortega - the leftist Sandinista whom Nicaraguans tossed out in 1990 after he presided over a civil war-torn decade of Marxist authoritarianism and economic disaster. Ortega was a bona fide guerrilla hero who had helped lead the Sandinista insurrection that overthrew the tyrant Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. But Ortega proved to be a clueless and corrupt head of state, and after his 1990 electoral humiliation, he had looked set for the Cold War scrap heap. He failed in presidential bids in 1996 and 2001, and in 1998 his stepdaughter, Zoilamerica Narvaez, accused...
...llez—who helped overthrow Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza during the Sandinista revolution of the 1980s—had applied for a student visa to study English at the University of San Diego, but after it was denied in January, she decided not to seek a visa allowing her to teach...
...Trey Anastasio...
...album’s music, though not entirely classical and certainly far from rock, manages to blend the orchestral approach of Trey’s earlier solo work with the crunchier flavor of Phish’s songs. Anastasio, who is known for his serious devotion to composing, wrote many of Phish’s songs as orchestral miniatures...
...album is the final track, an orchestral rendition of “Guyute.” Leaving no question that Anastasio has a gift for crafting melody, he leaves the listener entwined in a complex and majestic resonance of bliss...