2006 Nicaraguan presidential election

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Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. ... The long arm of Russian President Vladimir Putin? ... scheme to use social media to attack the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2016 elections, Mrs Hillary Clinton, and boost Mr Donald Trump and sow discord.

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The history of the U.S. government intervening in Nicaragua since 1912 followed by a CIA-orchestrated covert war that began after the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979 involved acts of terrorism and a ..... Ortega lost the 1990 presidential election to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, with some help from the CIA.

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The revolutionary government lasted a decade in power, then lost the elections to opposition leader Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who replaced Daniel Ortega as president of Nicaragua in 1990. In the 2006 general election, Daniel Ortega (the eternal candidate of the FSLN for the presidency) was reelected ...

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