09 August 2010

NICARAGUA: Cult Of Personality On Display At The "Danielismo" Museum.

LATIMES/ TRACY WILKINSON/    At the year-old  Museum of the Sandinista Victory in Managua, there are many images celebrating current President Daniel Ortega...and not much else.

WILKINSON: "Ortega has Forrest Gumped himself onto all the major battle lines of the struggle that dethroned dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, carried the Sandinista movement to power and radically changed Nicaraguan history. As for all the other comandantes and major figures who shared in those events with similar or even more important roles?   "We have been erased," said Sergio Ramirez, the renowned writer and a member of the Sandinista government who served as vice president during Ortega's first term as president, from 1985 to 1990."