Complex sentence: In the weeks before the November election, Ortega gave a U.N. speech denouncing talks held in Rio de Janeiro on electoral reform as pretexts in a U.S. plot to invade Nicaragua.
Split into simpler sentences: In the weeks before the November election, Ortega gave a U.N. speech denouncing recent talks held in Rio de Janeiro on electoral reform. He viewed the talks as a pretext in a U.S. plot to invade Nicaragua.