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...The abortion ban, although more prone to receive mass media attention than the use of Catholic textbooks in Nicaragua’s public schools, is, to a certain degree, similar in that it is another example of the strength of the Church’s ongoing power and the Faustian bargain Ortega was prepared to make. In 2006, with legislation related to the abortion ban about to come up in the National Assembly, Nicaraguans were anxiously waiting to see which side of the debate the three main presidential candidates would take. Future President Daniel Ortega (who once declared himself to be an atheist) had recently started attending Catholic services, according to a 2006 article in Pine Magazine. Although he was the most leftist liberal candidate in the race when compared to the two social conservatives against whom he was running, Ortega knew he could not win the general election without attracting the necessary support of at least some of the more conservative Catholics in Nicaragua. As a result, when the movement to enact the ban began prior to the election, Ortega said and did nothing to oppose it. In order for him to win, Ortega undoubtedly (and probably correctly) believed that he would need to cater to some of the more symbolically important forces to be found in Nicaragua, among the Church and its constituents.
Given Ortega’s rapid change of heart on matters of great importance to the party, many former Sandinistas who once were close allies of his, were amazed at what appeared to be Ortega’s opportunistic nature regarding a number of key issues. Having once been an ardent atheist and foe of Cardinal Obando and Church strictures, Ortega now became an active opponent of the right to an abortion and a supporter of Obando and the primacy of the Catholic Church. Yet soon after victory, however, Ortega seemed to switch sides once again, coming out in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). In addition, it should certainly be noted that, at the time of his support of the abortion ban, Ortega also was anxious for the Church to prove forgiving for his own alleged sexual abuse shortcomings regarding his young step-daughter.
WHAT THE FUCK?!@ why haven't i heard about this before?!
"We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was." -ortega
apparently you still don't, you hypocritical bastard. this shit makes my skin crawl. he should be strung up.
(whole article about the abortion ban's development/impact in nicaragua is here)
Given Ortega’s rapid change of heart on matters of great importance to the party, many former Sandinistas who once were close allies of his, were amazed at what appeared to be Ortega’s opportunistic nature regarding a number of key issues. Having once been an ardent atheist and foe of Cardinal Obando and Church strictures, Ortega now became an active opponent of the right to an abortion and a supporter of Obando and the primacy of the Catholic Church. Yet soon after victory, however, Ortega seemed to switch sides once again, coming out in support of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). In addition, it should certainly be noted that, at the time of his support of the abortion ban, Ortega also was anxious for the Church to prove forgiving for his own alleged sexual abuse shortcomings regarding his young step-daughter.
WHAT THE FUCK?!@ why haven't i heard about this before?!
"We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was." -ortega
apparently you still don't, you hypocritical bastard. this shit makes my skin crawl. he should be strung up.
(whole article about the abortion ban's development/impact in nicaragua is here)