From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Daniel Ortega, the revolutionary Marxist who battled a U.S.-backed Contra insurgency in the 1980s, was closing in on Nicaragua's presidency, appearing Monday to have defeated four opponents with promises that he was a changed man.
Final results from Sunday's vote weren't released yet, but preliminary results and two of the country's electoral watchdog groups all gave Ortega about 40 percent of the vote.
That's more than enough to avoid a runoff against Eduardo Montealegre, who trailed by at least seven percentage points.
The United States, which has threatened to pull aid from an Ortega government, said it was too soon to declare him a winner.
Nicaragua always reminds me of The Great Cornholio:
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