U.S. Envoy Warns Business Leaders Against

[Commie Girl]

WHat type of leader is the President of Nicaragua? I am assuming he is a lapdog of the U$....


NY Times

Oct. 5 -


Robert B. Zoellick, the American deputy secretary of state, warned Nicaraguan business leaders today during his visit here that they should not support political parties that are trying to unseat the nation's president if they hope to continue doing business with the United States.

"Your opportunities will be lost," Mr. Zoellick said he told the businessmen.

On the second day of a visit here intended to help defuse a political crisis, Mr. Zoellick also met with politicians who said they intended to oppose "the pact," a partnership of political parties trying to unseat President Enrique Bolaños.

In his meetings, Mr. Zoellick raised the level of the warnings he issued to Nicaraguan leaders over the consequences of trying to depose the president before a regularly scheduled election next year.

"I am only telling the truth," Mr. Zoellick said.

Daniel Ortega, the Sandinista leader who is a longtime enemy of the United States and who has lost three presidential elections since 1990, has been allied with Arnoldo Alemán, the former president convicted of embezzling $100 million from the Nicaraguan treasury. Their partnership has been working to try to force Mr. Bolaños from office so they can gain power.

Mr. Zoellicks's threats and entreaties appeared to be bearing fruit. In an interview, senior members of Mr. Alemán's governing party, the Constitutionist Liberal Party, said they are backing away from their alliance with Mr. Ortega and will vote to keep Mr. Bolaños in power until the presidential election in November 2006.

"To create more chaos now, in an election year, would not allow us to have stability - and not allow us to succeed against the Sandinistas in elections next year," said a senior party member, Carlos Nuguera.

Mr. Zoellick said in an interview that "the political ground seems to be shifting."

The party leaders told him the same thing, he said, "and I was encouraged by the statement, but we will have to see where it is headed."

The Sandinista Party controls the national electoral commission, and both Nicaraguan and American officials said they were certain that the Sandinistas would try to manipulate election laws and voting results in their favor. Mr. Zoellick announced that the United States would provide more than $4 million to two private American organizations so they can serve as election monitors next year.

Mr. Zoellick also met with several politicians from the Sandinista and governing parties who told him they are pursuing "a third way," an electoral movement that tries to take advantage of the obvious popular dismay over the state of political affairs here now.

"I think there is a genuine public movement that suggests that a wide spectrum, a large number of people, have reacted quite negatively to the pact," Mr. Zoellick said. "But whether democracy will be allowed to work here, that is a different question."

[fernando]

They are getting scared...

[Sabocat]

The Sandinista Party controls the national electoral commission, and both Nicaraguan and American officials said they were certain that the Sandinistas would try to manipulate election laws and voting results in their favor. Mr. Zoellick announced that the United States would provide more than $4 million to two private American organizations so they can serve as election monitors next year.

That's just funny. The U.S. is going to monitor elections to see that they're legitimate? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

We don't have legitimate elections here, who the fuck are we to determine what's legitimate anywhere else?

The bottom line here obviously, is that if the Sandinista's make any inroads politically, then the U.S. will place an embargo and strangle any even remotely left wing group there.

I'm sure the $4 million will be funneled to the likes of the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) which is really nothing more than a neocon schill for the CIA to subvert elections.

If you want to read what garbage the NED is, check this out New World Order

[bolshevik butcher]

At the rate socialism is spreading through laitn america i doubt the sandinistas will need to rig the election to win. Of course the U$ will say they did wether they did or they didnt.

[RedStarOverChina]

This is exactly why RS2K said "the fortress of world reaction (USA) must fall".

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Oh yeah? Will they 'monitor' the elections like they did the first time refusing to recognize the Sandanistas victory, OR will they 'monitor' themhe like they did the second time, promising to tighten the emargo and increase support for the contras is the Sandanistas won and promising aid if the opposition won?

Honestly though, I'm not sure what the Sandanistas could/would even accomplish now if they were to be elected.. some sort of Social Democracy at best.. maybe an opening for the working class..

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

WHat type of leader is the President of Nicaragua? I am assuming he is a lapdog of the U$....

You assumed right..