A good few days for democracy

As the Senate is on the brink of finally falling to the Democrats and their securing of the House, we must not forget another seed of progressive politics has been sown. Down in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega has won, with his opponent conceding as final proof of that. Ortega is part of the Sandinista group that in the 1980s overthrew a barbaric right-wing regime to implement social justice measures and was punished by the Pentagon and Reagan with a covert civil war that actually subverted the US constitution. Ortega lost in elctions in 1990, but he is back now, wiser and less outspoken, but still just as committed to relieving the needs of the poor, who make up four-fifths of Nicaragua's population. I wish him well.