The current administration just governs for the guys in ties," he said.

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/126009,CST-NWS-nic07.article

U.S. threatens to withhold aid if Ortega wins

November 7, 2006
BY TRACI CARL
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Daniel Ortega, the revolutionary Marxist who battled a U.S.-backed Contra insurgency in the 1980s, was closing in on Nicaragua's presidency, appearing Monday to have defeated four opponents with promises that he was a changed man.

Final results from Sunday's vote weren't released yet, but preliminary results and two of the country's electoral watchdog groups all gave Ortega about 40 percent of the vote. snip

Herberto Jose Lopez, who earns about $235 a month selling CDs from a kiosk, said Monday he voted for Ortega in hopes that he would help Nicaragua's poor.

"I've got a wife and kid and I'm lucky because I have a job, but most people will tell you the same thing: The current administration just governs for the guys in ties," he said.

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1. Oh goody, another invasion!