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 mayor of Managua, Lewites was the presidential hopeful of the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS) party, a dissident faction of the Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN). Herty Lewites, once an integral member of the FSLN revolutionary movement, was close to party leader Daniel Ortega during the 1979 revolution and remained so throughout the party’s time in power in the 1980s. However, he was expelled from the FSLN in March 2005 when he announced his intention to run against Ortega to be the Sandinista candidate in the 2006 national presidential election. The MRS has just announced that Lewites’ former running mate, Edmundo Jarquín, son-in-law of former President Violeta Chamorro, will replace Lewites as the party’s presidential candidate...

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