Daniel Ortega biography

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Daniel Ortega was born on November 11th, 1945 in La Libertad, Nicaragua. He was a guerrilla leader and member of the Sandinista junta that took power in 1979. He was elected president of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990 and again from January 2007. Ortega recently had the Nicaraguan Supreme Court lift the constitutional ban on consecutive reelection, allowing him to run in the 2011 election.