JB Pictures
01 February, 1990
President Daniel Ortega is certain of his success at the last Sandinista rally before the elections in February. But his words, "We have already won", came too soon. It was Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, leader of the opposition party UNO, who became president in a sensational victory.
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