The Nicaraguan leader, who is campaigning for president for the fourth time, is preaching harmony, love and reconciliation while John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" plays in the background…

Ortega, the one-time president who lost in 1990, "lowered illiteracy rates from 60 percent to 12 percent and built a free health care system," says the Associated Press.

Now 60 and balding, he has toned down his revolutionary rhetoric, invoking both John Lennon and God and promising to favor free trade policies and improve health care and education. (AP full story)

Now 60 and balding, he has toned down his revolutionary rhetoric, invoking both John Lennon and God and promising to favor free trade policies and improve health care and education. (AP full story)