Ortega is just your average American Demonrat.
Democrats who helped keep Ortega in office included Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Ct), Rep. John Conyers Jr (D-MI), Rep. George Communist Party member Crockett Jr (D-MI), Rep. Michael Barnes (D-Md) - became a lobbyist for Gaddafi and Libya), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass) a hardcore red, and all those who supported the Sandinista/CPUSA front known as the National Network in Solidarity with the People of Nicaragua (NNISPN; WOLA - The Washington Office on Latin America, hardcore red clergy in the US, and COHA, Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
See www.keywiki.org and www.DiscoverTheNetworks. org for more details, names, fronts, etc.