Somoza family
In December 2004 he released a book titled "La Epopeya de la Insurrección" (Epic of the Insurrection). Ortega says he worked 10 hours a day on the book for two years using his own records, meeting notes, archives and analytical schemes to reconstruct the history of the struggle that ultimately brought down the 43-year Somoza family dictatorship. Among his other books are, "50 Años de Lucha Sandinista", "Sobre la Insurrección" and "Nicaragua Revolución y Democracia".