Playboy Interview: Daniel Ortega

Playboy Interview: Daniel Ortega[Q] Playboy: Perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that you--Nicaragua's head of state--are also a poet, since many of the top Sandinista leaders are poets as well. Is that some kind of credential for a political post in Nicaragua?[A] Ortega: I wouldn't say I'm a poet. But Nicaragua's great national poet Rubén Darío gave all of us an obligation to write. Nicaraguans like to write poetry. Given the culture, many sorts of poets emerge--good poets, all kinds of poets.[Q]...