MANAGUA (Dispatches) -- Daniel Ortega has been sworn in as the Nicaraguan President for a fourth consecutive term, only hours after the U.S. and European Union imposed fresh sanctions on several figures in his government. Ortega, who won the November 7 election by a landslide, focused his inauguration speech on the history of the Sandinista rebellion against the former US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza. In a measured speech, he vowed to continue the battle “to erase poverty, to erase hunger, to improve the lives of the families of Nicaragua.”