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...most democracies, Arnoldo Alem?n wouldn't seem like a viable presidential candidate. In fact, the former president of Nicaragua might not even pass the basic sniff test...
...corrupt as he was authoritarian. Those who know him say his quest to regain the presidency--he lost elections in 1996 and 2001--stemmed less from leftist ideals than from a raw need to accumulate power and avenge his 1990 humiliation. In 2000 he formed an alliance with President Arnoldo Alemán--a right-wing Somoza acolyte who was later jailed for embezzlement--that helped the Sandinistas dominate Congress and the courts. In 2001 a Sandinista judge who had been a high-ranking official in Ortega's first government dismissed charges by Ortega's stepdaughter Zoilamérica Narváez that...
...Improbable as it may seem, Ortega, now 60, has reemerged as the frontrunner in Nicaragua's presidential race through his alliance with an unlikely chum, former President Arnoldo Aleman. The corpulent Aleman would seem to be the skinny Ortega's antithesis - an arch-conservative Somoza acolyte elected President in 1996 in a wave of nostalgia for the pre-Sandinista days. But as President from 1997 to 2002, Aleman stole tens of millions of dollars from public coffers, including $1.8 million he charged on a government credit card for his wedding in Miami to a woman 22 years his junior. Aleman...
...After conducting a prolonged search of a suspicious individual on Ware St., an HUPD officer arrested 42-year-old Arnoldo Castro of Cambridge for disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and trespassing...
...official death toll approached 7,000 Tuesday, and with 13,000 people still listed missing, that count is almost certain to rise. And true to Nicaraguan tradition, the natural disaster is impacting on politics. "President Arnoldo Aleman is being criticized for the slow progress in getting aid to stricken villages," says Orlandi. "And the Sandinistas are attacking him for not declaring a national emergency." Aleman may want to pay more attention to history: It was political fallout from the 1972 killer earthquake that helped sweep the Sandinistas to power seven years later...