Humberto Ortega, Luis Carrion, and Daniel Ortega, 1979. Photo: Pedro Meyer.
In the photograph above, writes historian Elena Salamanca, Daniel Ortega and his fellow Nicaraguan revolutionaries are slyly ridiculing the aristocratic elites they had just overthrown. But as Ortega shuffles toward yet another reelection, the throne increasingly fits him.
“Don’t let sweet dreams lull you to sleep, Daniel Ortega,”
I am the one who got it all started. Photo Hossam el Hamalawy.
The Muslim Brothers and the left are in open war in Egypt. Since taking power, the Brothers have shown little interest in the plight of the poor, and have forgotten their debts to erstwhile allies, writes a prominent leftist activist in an open letter to the chairman of the Islamist group’s political party.
Listening to you thoughtlessly vilifying the Left, asserting first that it is funded by sources abroad, then carrying on about its fragmentation and alienation from the Egyptian culture, my anger quickly changed into disdain.
