Ortega's return?

摘要

It is like the sequel to a 20-year-old movie, with many of the same actors but an extra dash of surrealism. The star (or villain): Daniel Ortega, ex-president of Nicaragua, now sporting a paunch and a bright pink shirt instead of the combat fatigues and black-and-red banners with which he and his left-wing Sandinist revolutionaries took power in 1979. Arrayed against him are officials of America's State and Defence Departments. Some of them had jobs in the administration of Ronald Reagan, which tried to unseat the Sandinists by sponsoring the contras, a group of terrorists (or freedom fighters). Albeit this time without violence, they wish to prevent Mr Ortega from returning to power, a decade after he was voted out, in a presidential election due on November 4th.