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MEXICO CITY — President Daniel Ortega cruised to victory and a third consecutive term in Nicaragua, capturing more than 72 percent of the vote in an election that opponents had condemned as undemocratic, according to figures announced Monday.
The win puts Ortega, the 70-year-old former Marxist guerrilla, in line for his fourth presidential term — a total of a quarter century leading Nicaragua — since he helped the Sandinistas in 1979 overthrow the Somoza family that had ruled for the previous four decades. His wife, Rosario Murillo, will be vice president.
