Herty Lewites Rodríguez, politician: born Jinotepe, Nicaragua 24 December 1939; Tourism Minister 1979-90; Mayor of Managua 2001-05; married Carmen García (two sons); died Managua 2 July 2006. The ...

The unexpected death by heart-attack of presidential candidate Herty Lewites on 2 July 2006 has irrupted into Nicaragua's electoral panorama just four months before the elections of 5 November. There ...

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NOTHING upsets an electoral calculus as dramatically as the sudden death of one of the candidates. At least Herty Lewites, the centre-left contender in Nicaragua's election in November, died of a ...

Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died of a heart attack on Sunday, July 2, in a Managua hospital. His death was disclosed by his close political ally, Dora Maria Tellez. The former ...

In March, I wrote about Nicaraguan First Lady Rosario Murillo’s massive construction of public art projects as symbols of state power, into which the government has funneled millions of dollars. Now, ...

MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — What was it that Nicaragua’s greatest athlete heard from the president’s envoy the night he shot himself in the chest? After dark on June 30, a loyal lieutenant to President ...

The United States has offered its condolences to the family of Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites, who died Sunday in Managua. In a statement released Monday, the U.S. State Department ...

2006-09-18 04:00:00 PDT Masaya, Nicaragua-- Carlos Mejia Godoy would rather play his accordion than give political speeches. But perhaps the nation's most famous singer-songwriter knows that he has a ...

La Concha Acustica in 2005. (Courtesy of Glen Small) In Portland's St. Johns neighborhood, an architect is in pain. "It's excruciating to me," said Glen Howard Small, Oregon-educated architect and ...

Herty Lewites, who has died aged 66 following a heart attack, could no doubt have led a more comfortable life had he not chosen to devote much of it to the decades-long struggle against the Somoza ...