Humberto Ortega, Luis Carrion, and Daniel Ortega, 1979. Photo: Pedro Meyer.
In the photograph above, writes historian Elena Salamanca, Daniel Ortega and his fellow Nicaraguan revolutionaries are slyly ridiculing the aristocratic elites they had just overthrown. But as Ortega shuffles toward yet another reelection, the throne increasingly fits him.
“Don’t let sweet dreams lull you to sleep, Daniel Ortega,”