"Ortega today is the same mumbling, authoritarian incompetent he was 20 years ago,

"but this time he has tightened his hold on power."


The original article is titled The Other America. This snippet is from original by the same name published recently in the Jesuit magazine America. March 8, 2010. By Tim Padgett, described as "...the Miami and Latin America bureau chief for Time magazine."

"For starters, Ortega is Nicaragua's president again.

"He was elected in 2006 largely because, 16 years after Chamorro's U.S. - backed victory, most Nicaraguans were still living under grinding poverty.

"Ortega today is the same mumbling, authoritarian incompetent he was 20 years ago, but this time he has tightened his hold on power.

"Last October loyal Supreme Court justices lifted the Nicaraguan Constitution's one - term limit for presidents and let him run again in 2011..."


Wow, so this is the end result of Liberation Theology -- or at least the hard nose Marxist style of 25 years ago, or what?! :)

Anyway, this whole article does come across as a sort sobering wake - up call, but what to do next seems kind of cloudy, still... :(