In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945 ) is a Nicaraguan politician.

His parents, Daniel Ortega and Lidia Saavedra, were opposed to the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.

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* 1990 – Violeta Chamorro wins presidential elections in Nicaragua, against Daniel Ortega.

* 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba ; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.

Daniel Ortega of the Marxist-Leninist movement called the Sandinista National Liberation Front seized power in Nicaragua in 1979 and faced armed opposition from the Contras supported by the United States.

Marxist-Leninist leader Daniel Ortega returned to power in Nicaragua in 2007.

On July 19, 1979, a new government was proclaimed under a provisional junta headed by 35-year-old Daniel Ortega and including Violeta Chamorro, Pedro's widow.

Enrique Bolaños of the PLC was elected to the Nicaraguan presidency, defeating the FSLN candidate Daniel Ortega, by 14 percentage points.

In November 2006 the presidential election was won by Daniel Ortega, returned to power after 16 years in opposition.

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In recent years, under the administrations of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan economy has increased dramatically, although it has also been subject to the global recession.

Under current president Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has stayed current with the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement, which entered into force for Nicaragua on April 1, 2006.

Whilst on a state visit to Russia in December 2008, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega expressed his desire to travel to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the future, and stated that Nicaragua is in solidarity with the people of the two countries.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Bolivian President Evo Morales, and Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa refer to their political programmes as socialist.

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

One of the released prisoners was Daniel Ortega, who would later become the president of Nicaragua ( 1985 – 1990 ).

The " Insurrectional Tendency ", also known as the " Third Way " or Terceristas, led by Daniel Ortega, his brother Humberto Ortega, and Mexican-born Victor Tirado Lopez, was more pragmatic and called for tactical, temporary alliances with non-communists, including the right-wing opposition, in a popular front against the Somoza regime.

They were: Daniel Ortega, Humberto Ortega and Víctor Tirado ( Terceristas ); Tomás Borge, Bayardo Arce, and Henry Ruiz ( GPP faction ); and Jaime Wheelock, Luis Carrión and Carlos Núñez.

The members of the new junta were Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ), Moisés Hassan ( FPN ), Sergio Ramírez ( the " Twelve "), Alfonso Robelo ( MDN ) and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of La Prensas director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.

Three of the appointed members belonged to FSLN, which included – Sandinista militants Daniel Ortega, Moises Hassan, and novelist Sergio Ramírez ( a member of Los Doce " the Twelve ").

In early 1988, the administration of Daniel José Ortega Saavedra ( Sandinista junta coordinator 1979-85, president 1985-90 ) established an austerity program to lower inflation.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra 1985-1990.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra 2007-2012.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra 2012-2017.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 4, 1984 ' won getting the 67. 20 % of the valid votes cast 735. 067 votes equivalent to well above the second party of the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) who just won 154. 127 corresponding to a 14. 00 % of the valid votes.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra October 20, 1996 ' Lost as 669. 443 A total valid votes equivalent to 37. 75 %, well below that obtained by his main opponent on Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo candidate of the Liberal Alliance ( AL ) who won 904. 908 to obtain valid votes equivalent to 51. 03 %.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 4, 2001 ' Lost as 915. 417 A total valid votes equivalent to 42. 30 %, well below that obtained by the main opposition Enrique Bolaños Geyer candidate Liberal Constitutionalist Party ( PLC ) who won by getting 1, 216, 863 valid votes equivalent to 56. 30 %.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 6, 2011 ' Won In National Elections held on November 6, 2011 was the amount of 1, 569, 287 for 62. 46 % of the total valid votes, what became the Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra in the presidential candidate who won more votes in a Presidential election in the history of Nicaragua, in addition to that obtained a lead of more than 30 % of valid votes doubling the number of votes obtained by radial businessman Fabio Gadea Mantilla on behalf of the Independent Liberal Party ( PLI ) who obtained the amount of 778. 889 votes recorded for 31. 00 %.

He was Minister of Defense between the victory of the Sandinista revolution in 1979 under the National Reconstruction Government, through the first presidency of his brother Daniel Ortega Saavedra, and through the presidency of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who defeated Daniel Ortega in the elections of 1990.

* Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor, Best Art Direction, Jorge Ferrari ; Best Cinematography, José Luis Alcaine ; Best Costume Design, Valentina Bari and Kathy Saavedra ; Best Editing, Fernando Pardo ; Best New Actress, Marcela Kloosterboer ; Best Original Screenplay, Adolfo Aristarain, Mario Camus and Kathy Saavedra ; Best Sound, Daniel Goldstein and Ricardo Steinberg ; 2005.

* Adler, Jeremy, Beyond the Law: the artistry and enduring counter-cultural power of the kabbala, Times Literary Supplement 24 February 2006, reviewing: Daniel C Matt, translator The Zohar ; Arthur Green A Guide to the Zohar ; Moshe Idel Kabbalah and Eros.

* February 28 – President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega announces a cease-fire with the U. S .- backed contras.

* February 27 – U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key for having an affair with his wife.

* February 10 – Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to 5 and 7 years, respectively, for ' anti-Soviet ' writings.

* February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter ( b. 1726 )

* February 4 – Daniel Turner, officer in the United States Navy ( b. 1794 )

* February 6 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* February 1 – Kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is murdered in Karachi, Pakistan.

* February 28 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress ( b. 1914 )

* February 24 – Paul Daniel Longolius, German encyclopedist ( b. 1704 )

* February 25 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, French explorer ( b. c. 1639 )

* February 8 – Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian ( d. 1728 )

* February 25 – Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar ( b. 1580 )

Daniel Coit Gilman was inaugurated as the first president on February 22, 1876.

* February 2 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

* February 9 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician ( d. 1782 )

Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki ( 16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801 ) was a Polish-German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher.

Johannes Daniel Falk ( 28 October 1768 – 14 February 1826 ) was a German poet.

In January and February 2010, he presented the event Bennac, a meeting between himself and the French writer Daniel Pennac.

Daniel Bernoulli (; ) ( 8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782 ) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

*" MIRV: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MINUTEMAN and MULTIPLE REENTRY VEHICLES " by Daniel Buchonnet, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, February 1976.

* February 16 The Justice Department decides not to appeal to the Supreme Court the charges thrown out by the 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Daniel Bayly, Merrill Lynch's former head of investment banking ; James A.

Horatio Nelson | Nelson receiving the surrender of the Spanish ship San José | San José at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Daniel Orme, painted 1799