"Chamorro is almost as emblematic of Nicaragua's
30-year-old Sandinista revolution as Ortega.
During Ortega's first presidency, in the decade
that followed the 1979 revolution, Chamorro edited
the official newspaper Barricada, largely a
mouthpiece for the Sandinista National Liberation
Front, or FSLN.
"But today, Chamorro is one of the most outspoken
critics of Ortega; in a regular television program
and a weekly newsletter, he routinely denounces
what he says is widespread government corruption
and abuse of authority by an increasingly heavy-handed
president."
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In an
interview with British journalist David Frost of
the Al-Jazeera network, Daniel Ortega affirmed his
support of the idea to end a ban on consecutive
presidential terms and said he supports the idea
of a parliamentary system.
Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, third from right
with glasses, who runs the Communication Research Center, is
surrounded by the police as a search warrant is carried out at its
facilities in Managua. Chamorro is under threat as the
country's leading advocate for press freedom.
Memomories
of a long life in Nicaragua...
The Guardian
Weekly
Born in 1910,
Francisca Martinez Avilez has lived through many of the
momentous events that took place in Nicaragua during the
past century. The hardest time was in the
1980s when Ortega was in power and a lot of people died in
military service. The revolution was a scary time. I never
left my house but history has always seemed to find me.
The FARC’s Honduran Friends
By Mary Anastasia
O´Grady.
The FARC is a major player in the
cocaine trade, and documents found in computers captured by the
Colombian military in a raid last year on a FARC camp in Ecuador
show that the rebels have been active in Honduras. A number of those
documents came into my possession last week. One is a March 2005
letter to the now-deceased rebel leader Raúl Reyes from another FARC
honcho. It provides a list of “political contacts” that have been
established around the region and in Spain to provide “support” and
help “coordinate the work” of the FARC
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Lousy president, terrible precedent
Jul 2nd 2009 FromThe
Economistprint
edition
Manuel Zelaya should be restored to power. He should
also be forced to respect the constitution.
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Muddled on Democracy: The Case of Honduras
By Rick Santorum.
The
Gathering Storm.
The
military-enforced removal of former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya
on June 28 has generated a widespread wringing of hands across the
globe, as leaders of both nations and international watchdog
organizations once again find themselves debating the means and
methodsof democratic rule. Does the buck really stop at free and so-called
"fair" elections? Or is a certain accountability beyond that initial
vote needed for liberal democracies to flourish and protect its
citizens?
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As Yet Uncertain: Honduras and Iran
By Rick Santorum. The last month has
witnessed intense political turmoil and public unrest in two
separate regions where "democracy" properly understood remains a
distant hope. What follows is an update on the fall-out
fromthepolitical earthquakes that have shaken Honduras and Iran.
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Rewriting
the Book of Daniel
By Tim Rogers, Time
Despite her husband's attempts to
appropriate Christian symbolism to his own cause, Ortega's wife,
Rosario Murillo, subscribes to a jumble of religious beliefs that
might be euphemistically described as "New Age." Murillo — known to
be an eccentric intellectual and spiritual influence on the
president — has created a perplexing religious culture based on
strange symbolism, superstition and fear. A disciple of the miracle-working
Indian guru Sai Baba, Murillo has mixed mystic spiritualism with the
teachings of Jesus Christ and the home-cooked philosophy of Gen.
Augusto Sandino, and added a pinch of native indigenous beliefs to
serve up a curious concoction of religious syncretism unrecognizable
to most theologians.
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