It was a Latino lefty party yesterday in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua as the Central American nation celebrated the 28th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. President Daniel Ortega, presided over the celebrations along with the presidents of Panama, Honduras, and what leftist Latino celebration would be complete without Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez?

While some have called into question Ortega’s commitment to the original Sandinista ideals which he helped implement following the overthrow of (surprise) U.S. backed dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, Ortega took the anniversary as an opportunity to formally roll out controversial “people’s councils,” described by the Sandinistas as an exercise in direct democracy.

Certainly any party that Hugo Chavez attends is going to be suspect to the U.S. government. Let’s see how far Ortega will go.

Via / Yahoo!