#Nicaragua's President Daniel #Ortega has secured a fourth term in office by a landslide, according to early results of an election that critics said the former #guerrilla fighter rigged by suppressing his political rivals. A former Marxist rebel who helped topple the right-wing #Somoza family dictatorship in the late 1970s, Ortega says he is defending Nicaragua against unscrupulous adversaries bent on ousting him with the aid of foreign powers.

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