# Daniel Ortega
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Kind: **person**

Also written as: President Daniel Ortega · Ortega · the President · the head of the Nicaraguan government · the Nicaraguan government’s leader

## Involved in

- [Rubio warned that the Trump Administration and the international community will not stand by as the Murillo‑Ortega dictatorship deepens repression and…](https://truthscore.com/claim/21271228)
- [Ortega has used the July 19 moment in recent years to discuss the country’s prior successes, lay out the agenda for the following year, praise the 1979…](https://truthscore.com/claim/503bfffa)
- [The New York Times reported that Daniel Ortega planned to abolish elections completely, strengthening his authoritarian grip on the country.](https://truthscore.com/claim/54cdf2ac)
- [Ortega’s call to bar coup participants from elections was met with cheers from the July 19 crowds.](https://truthscore.com/claim/5ac9c012)
- [There will be no elections like that again here – no more elections through which they can try cheating their way to government or cheat their way to taking…](https://truthscore.com/claim/65be2010)
- [Felix Maradiaga claimed that Ortega buried Nicaraguan democracy a long time ago.](https://truthscore.com/claim/934b4669)
- [Every year huge crowds gather in celebrations across the country, culminating in a nationally‑broadcast speech by President Daniel Ortega.](https://truthscore.com/claim/9f9f2102)
- [Ortega proposed a blanket electoral ban on candidates who participated in fomenting the 2018 riots that left hundreds dead.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a06dc20e)
- [Ortega’s government claims the sovereign right to fight foreign interference in its electoral process.](https://truthscore.com/claim/c36d169b)