With burial, Nicaragua party tries to create hero - by Octavio Enriquez, Associated Press - Teary-eyed Sandinista leaders bade
farewell to the "older brother" of their revolution at a dramatic midnight funeral and President Daniel Ortega declared three days of national mourning. First lady Rosario Murillo said in a cracking voice that movement founder Tomas Borge was "one of the dead who never die." Read more
Death of a tyrant: Tomas Borge - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - torturer, thief, assassin - is hailed as a hero by Latin leftists With burial, Nicaragua party tries to create hero Read more
Nicaragua Creates Hero of Late Sandinista - Fox News - The pomp of Borge's send-off reflects not only his role in Nicaraguan history, but appears to be a bid by Ortega to build his government's legitimacy and perhaps even pave the way for his own immortalization in the pantheon of the Central American ... Read more
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Nicaragua Creates Hero of Late Sandinista - Fox News - The pomp of Borge's send-off reflects not only his role in Nicaraguan history, but appears to be a bid by Ortega to build his government's legitimacy and perhaps even pave the way for his own immortalization in the pantheon of the Central American ... Read more
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