California during the early-eighties, one of the main characters is an undercover CIA agent selling cocaine to local drug dealers with the intent of using the money to fund the Contras in their fight against the Sandinistas. Presidents of the Executive The party has given the following Presidents of the Republic, namely: Daniel Ortega 1985–1990 Daniel Ortega 2007–present Prominent Sandinistas , hard-line National Directorate member in the 1980s Patrick Argüello, Sandinista involved with the Dawson's Field hijackings Nora Astorga, Sandinista UN ambassador Idania Fernandez, member of the Rigoberto López Pérez Regional Command; killed in action Gioconda Belli, novelist and poet, handled media relations for the FSLN government Tomás Borge, one of the FSLN's founders, leader of the Prolonged People's War tendency in the 1970s, Minister of Interior in the 1980s Omar Cabezas, Sandinista leader; also an author and politician Ernesto Cardenal, poet and priest; Minister of Culture in the 1980s Fernando Cardenal, a Jesuit priest and brother of Ernesto, directed the literacy campaign as Minister of Education Luis Carrión, 1980s National Directorate member Rigoberto Cruz (aka Pablo Ubeda), early FSLN member Joaquín Cuadra, internal front leader, later chief of staff of the army Miguel D'Escoto, a Maryknoll Roman Catholic priest; served as Nicaragua's foreign minister Carlos Fonseca, one of the FSLN's principal founders and leading ideologist in the 1960s Adeline Gröns y Schindler-McCoy de Argüello-Olivas, a journalist, university professor, diplomat Ambassador to East Germany, Consul General to the United Nations, Ambassador to the OAS, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Soviet Dean of Ambassadors, has worked in various administarions with high-profile jobs. Herty Lewites, former mayor of Managua, opponent of Daniel Ortega in 2005 , FSLN co-founder Daniel Ortega, post-revolution junta head, then President from 1985, lost presidential elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, won presidential elections in 2006, 2011 and 2016 and continues to lead the FSLN party Humberto Ortega, leader of the FSLN Insurrectional Tendency (Tercerista) in the 1970s, chief strategist of the anti-Somoza urban insurrection; Minister of Defense in the 1980s during the Contra war. Brother of Daniel Ortega. Edén Pastora "", social democratic guerrilla leader who joined the Terceristas during the anti-Somoza insurrection, broke with FSLN to lead center-left ARDE contra group based in Costa Rica during the early 1980s Sergio Ramírez, novelist and civilian Sandinista, architect of alliance with moderates in the 1970s, Vice President in the 1980s, opponent of Daniel Ortega in the 1990s Henry