When was daniel ortega born

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Daniel Ortega's wife was poetess Rosario Murillo; they had seven children. They terrorized suspected opponents of the regime to avenge their father's death. Repression kindled opposition, which surfaced after Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista regime in Ortega, still in high school in Managua in , took part in a widespread student struggle against the Somoza regime.

In Ortega was captured and tortured for his role in the protests. In Ortega was again arrested and tortured by the regime. But by he was again organizing JRN revolutionary cells in Managua's poor barrios. In he was captured in Guatemala with other Sandinistas and deported to Nicaragua, again to be imprisoned and tortured.

In Ortega headed the Internal Front, an urban underground that robbed several banks and in assassinated Gonzalo Lacayo, a reputed National Guard torturer. In November the security police captured Ortega, and he was given a lengthy sentence for the Lacayo killing. During his seven years in prison he and other Sandinistas exercised, wrote poetry, studied, and continued political activity—including resistance within the prison. In President Anastasio Somoza Debayle declared a state of siege and sharply increased repression of opponents.

Under fierce persecution and with many of its elements isolated, the FSLN began to develop different "tendencies" factions based on different political-military strategies.

In Ortega rejoined the National Directorate. The next year he resumed clandestine organizing in Managua and Masaya. The Terceristas allied with the rapidly growing non-Marxist opposition, and their ranks swelled. Militarily much bolder than the other tendencies in , the Terceristas helped spark a general popular insurrection in September and October of Ortega helped form and lead the Terceristas' northern front campaign in , and in helped lead the rapidly expanding southern front.

The FSLN's three tendencies reunited in early as popular rebellion spread. Daniel and Humberto Ortega became members of the new, joint National Directorate.