Editing Daniel Ortega (section)

=== Imprisonment===
He was imprisoned in 1967 for taking part in [[bank robbery|armed robbery]] of a branch of the [[Bank of America]]. He told collaborators that they should be killed if they did not take part in the robbery.<ref name="LO">{{Cite news|url=http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0902-05.htm|title=Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega; In the Lions' Den Again|last=Vulliamy|first=Ed|date=2 September 2001|work=[[The Observer]]|access-date=15 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223093439/http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0902-05.htm|archive-date=23 December 2007|url-status=dead|via=[[Common Dreams]]}}</ref> Ortega was released in late 1974, along with other Sandinista prisoners, in exchange for [[Somocista]] hostages. While imprisoned at the El Modelo jail, just outside [[Managua]], Ortega wrote poems, one of which he titled "I Never Saw Managua When Miniskirts Were in Fashion".<ref name="LO"/> During his imprisonment, Ortega was tortured.<ref name=":0">[[Bernard Diederich]], ''Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America'', p. 85.</ref> While he was incarcerated at El Modelo, his mother helped stage protests and hunger strikes for political prisoners; this resulted in improving the treatment of incarcerated Sandinistas.{{sfn|Kinzer|1991|p=188}}