Ortega, Take Two

Sandinista leader and former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega is back in power in Nicaragua 17 years after he was last in charge. Ortega, who was inaugurated on Wednesday, won a convincing victory in elections last November to get a second shot at running the Central American nation. He is taking over a very different country to the one he last managed in the 1980s and his supporters say his management of the economy this time around will also be very different. He has pledged to tackle energy problems and speed up economic growth as his priorities. With the very high-profile support on offer from Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, and with a difficult political history with the US, it will be interesting to see how Ortega handles relations with his country’s largest trade partner and biggest foreign investor.