The unreal has become reality in Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega, a hermit tyrant, is ordering the arrests of political rivals and leading his country down a path that gets darker and darker.
Daniel Ortega: from revolutionary to absolute overlord
The 17-year Nicaraguan president is now jailing his election opposition and rivals, many of them fellow ex-Sandinistas, now in their 70s.
Lumumba’s tooth and other remnants of 1960s idealism
The Congolese prime minister with a tragically brief tenure lives on as a secular saint, much like his contemporaries JFK and Che.