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Show f TheSali Lake Tribune WORLD Thursday, November22, 2001 Payback for Nicaragua’s New Leader Bolanosdefeats Sandinista enemy in presidential vote Daniel Ortega in a race for the Nicaraguan presidency. A man who was jailed and threatened will now run the nation as his old adversary looks on from a minority spot in Congress. Despite pre-election polls BY FRANCES ROBLES that claimed the two were ina dead heat, Bolanos wonvictory KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE The next day, Bolanos personally went around town with a MANAGUA,Nicaragua — It was a Friday night in March 1985 and uniformed agents showed up at business mogul Enrique Bolanos’ house; demanding that he appear for questioning. Under bright lights and a tough inquisition, Sandinista Front chiefs accused him and othercritical industry leaders of hatching a CIA plot. So what did Bolanos do? He held a news conference that day denouncing the threat, this time before the glare ofcamera lights. “He was neverafraid,” said Haydee Acosta, who runs an ethics program out of Bolanos’ office. “He had no problemtelling the truth, even if the authorities didn’tlikeit.” Three months afterward, the Marxist Sandinistas seized Bolanos’cotton farm after 1,200 peasants stormed uponit. Now 16 years later, Bolanos has gotten his payback: He triumphed over his former enemy, trouncing Sandinista ex-president oversaw /the country’s, Y2K “He was never afraid. conversion while Aleman was accused of padding the payroll withrelatives. Hehad no problem ae = runfor the pres telling the truth, even if s tried hard to a genteel and. the authorities didn’t stworthy elder untouched like it.” bycorruption. “He was portrayed on the Nov. 4 with a 14-point margin. working straight-arrow determined to dohisjob right. “T want to help mypeople,” he said. “I know I can help them.” Bolanos, #3, was raised in Masaya, 20 miles east of Managua. His father, a pharmacist, was poisoned to death in 1963, in a scandal so salacious that The New York Times covered it. An employee was convicted of Aleman business chamber that fought ate for Central America and the Caribbean at the Washington Office on Latin againstpropertyconfiscations. About$7 million in farms were taken from himbythe Sandinista Front. He was never com: in his campaign. I see nospecial evidencethathis government will be soft and pensated for most ofit. “The onlything theyleft me was my house, becauseit was humble,” Bolanos said in an interview with Tje Miami Herald earlier this year. Oncehis agricultural estate wasgone, Bolanos madea living as a computer programmer. In the murder, but Sandinista op- 1996, he joined then-Managua ponents have suggested the Mayor Arnoldo Alemanon the right-wing Liberal Party's president-elect did it for the money, an accusation Bolanos calls “perverse slander.” Afterhis father’s death, Bolanos became a wealthy indus- “The 1980s made himapoli- tician — he was abusine: man,” said Bolanos adviser trialist, at one point owning about 16,000 acres. gated to get involvedinpol: because they got involved wit him.” As vice president, grandfatherly, He’s did not very con- servative businessman.” Caldera jokes true that Bolanos was thecandidatefor the rich —‘he will try to make the poorricher by boosting in vestment and creating jobs Thoseclose to Bolanos say he By Tequila BY LAURIE GOERING i has fourchildre: id hecould neverbe wasnot aldera “Thenthey said he wastoo old. ‘Now theysay he can’t gov: ern. 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