41:. Other assets (such as transportation companies, lumber, sugar factories and slaughterhouses) were nominally taken over by the FSLN but later passed into the private hands of Ortega's relatives and collaborators. The two main laws that implemented the piñata were those known as Law 85 and Law 86. In the period between the electoral defeat of February 25, 1990 and the inauguration of his adversary Violeta Chamorro on April 27 of the same year, the Sandinistas transferred the ownership of a large number of properties and public assets, some previously expropriated, to their related organizations and, mostly, personally to their leaders such as President Daniel Ortega himself, his brother Humberto and the leader
45:. Relatives and people close to the president appropriated companies and land, other assets (such as transport companies, wood, sugar factories and slaughterhouses) were nominally transferred to the hands of the FSLN but later passed into the private hands of Ortega's relatives and collaborators. The two main laws that applied the piñata were those known as Law 85 and Law 86.
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