This is CBS Eye on the World, I'm John Batford.

To Nicaragua, Central America, Daniel Ortega and his wife controlled Nicaragua absolutely.

However, now we take a story back to the 20th century thanks to Mary Anastasia O'Grady.

She is the America's columnist and editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial board

to introduce the younger Daniel Ortega and the Society of Jesus in Nicaragua.

Mary, a very good evening to you.

This is extremely helpful to understand the evolving approach Ortega takes to institutions

in Nicaragua, which is now considered to be a non-transparent dictatorship.

The original Daniel Ortega in the 1970s.

He saw himself in some fashion as a communist, but that did not upset everyone in and around

him in Central America.

What about the Society of Jesus and the Catholic priest in Central America?

What was their opinion of Ortega at the beginning?

Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John.

Daniel Ortega, of course, was a Marxist in the 1970s when he led the Sandinista Revolution

against dictator Anastasia Somosa.

But he had allies, and one was many members of the Society of Jesus, or as we usually

call them the Jesuits.

They were not all of them, but many of them were following something they called liberation

theology, and it shared a number of Marxist concepts.

And that meant that when it came to the propaganda, educating, and fighting the war, the revolution,

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