“There is no way they can
reverse this on us,” Obando said. “If the riot police attack, it will be a
disaster. Nueva Segovia is a complicated place. We are very belligerent here.
This was the heart of the contra corridor and we have the bad habit of resolving
our problems in an inappropriate way.”
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Politics: Coming Soon... Nicaragua's One Party Political System
The ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN),
which since 2007 has eliminated virtually all democratic checks and balances by
consolidating single-party control over all four branches of government and
state institutions, will be going for a royal flush in November.
The party controlled by President Daniel Ortega and his
omnipresent wife has stated that it expects to win “by an avalanche” in
essentially every municipality. That prophecy, which will most likely come
true, will be a deathblow to municipal autonomy (or what remains of it) and
fulfill the president’s publically professed dream of converting Nicaragua into
a one-party system.
The opposition fully expects the elections to be farce. The
PLI says it’s participating in the process to document the fraud and to convert
the spectacle into a “platform for rebellion.”
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