Of course, the kind of support that Cuba could give us was very limited when it came to building up our army, since they didn't manufacture armaments in the quantities that we required. So we turned to Algeria and the Soviet Union for support.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1996 and 2001 before winning the 2006 presidential election. Chamorro was supported by the US and a 14-party anti-Sandinista alliance known as the National Opposition Union (Unión Nacional Oppositora UNO) an alliance that ranged from conservatives and liberals to communists. Ortega was defeated by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in the 1990 presidential election but he remained an important figure in Nicaraguan opposition politics gradually moderating in his political position from Marxism-Leninism to democratic socialism.

S. In power he has made alliances with fellow Latin American socialists namely Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and signed Nicaragua up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. economic interests in the country gaining hostility from the U.