Nicaragua Candidate Dies

Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites, of the Sandanista Renovation Movement (MRS), has died of a heart attack in the capital, Managua. The center-left ex-mayor of Managua had served as tourism minister under Daniel Ortega in the 1980s but later broke away from the Sandanista Party to run for the presidency later this year against Ortega. He had been expected to take away votes from the former president.