Dissidents protest Ortega-COSEP 'pacto'

Dissidents protest Ortega-COSEP 'pacto'

Nicaragua Dispatch

An anti-government group known as the Patriotic Movement for the Republic (MPR) is calling on Nicaraguan civil society to “lose its fear” and unite in an “organized and combative civil struggle” against what it calls the “dictatorial” alliance of power ...

Protestors against alleged fraud in Nicaragua's 2011 election

The Cutting Edge

Protestors against alleged fraud in Nicaragua's 2011 election The Cutting Edge A little more than two weeks ago, elections took place in Nicaragua in which the Sandinista Front for National Liberation won an unprecedented 62.46 percent of the national vote. Throughout the past year, Cid-Gallup, the Gallup institutional affiliate ... Daniel Ortega's New Kind of Coup Project Syndicate all 2 news articles »

Nicaragua's Opposition Asks The World Not To Recognize The Re-Election of Ortega

Inside Costa Rica

Inside Costa Rica - Daniel Ortega may have won the presidential elections in Nicaragua and may continue to be president for a third term, however, thousands took to the streets of Managua on Saturday to oppose his "fraudulent election", demanding and calling on the help ...  Read more Calls for new Nicaragua elections Sky News Australia all 12 news articles »

Protesters want new Nicaragua elections

Sky News Australia

About 5000 people protested in Managua on Saturday against alleged electoral fraud which they said led to the re-election of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and called for new polls. Demonstrators shouted slogans such as 'Where is my vote? ...  Read more

Nicaragua's President Rules Airwaves to Control Image

New York Times

New York Times MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The election this month in which President Daniel Ortega won a third term and a supermajority in Congress may have been marred by irregularities — the European Union's electoral mission called the vote tally ...  Read more

Controversy arises in Nicaraguan presidential elections

my.hsj.org - The 2011 Nicaraguan presidential elections sprouted much controversy on whether Daniel Ortega is a fraud or not. In retrospect, there are many keys that lead me to believe Ortega is hiding something about his re-election. Daniel Ortega is Nicaragua's ...  Read more

Nicaragua, Vietnam sign agreement on political cooperation

Focus News

Nicaragua and Vietnam have signed a "political cooperation agreement" to strengthen mutual support in international organizations and forums, the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry said Friday, Xinhua reported. According to a statement released by the ...  Read more

Nicaragua's Ortega to enjoy 2/3 majority in Congress

Reuters Canada

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega will enjoy an overwhelming congressional majority in his third term in office, giving his party the power to change the constitution without needing opposition support. ...  Read more

Discrepancies in Nicaragua election results highlight importance of election observers

Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor The blocking of observers at Nicaragua election sites and a strange pattern of results at the unobserved sites raises serious questions about the victories of Daniel Ortega and his party. By James Bosworth, Guest blogger / November 22, 2011 A man pulls ...  Read more

Opponents dispute Nicaraguan election results

CNN International

By the CNN Wire Staff An opponent of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega takes part in a protest in Managua on November 9, 2011. Managua, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Nicaragua's election officials have officially declared President Daniel Ortega's victory, ...  Read more

Nicaraguan bishops warn of fraud in presidential elections

Catholic News Agency

Managua, Nicaragua, Nov 21, 2011 / 02:18 pm (CNA).- Bishops in Nicaragua questioned the legitimacy of the Nov. 6 presidential elections after accusations of fraud and dishonesty were leveled against election officials. In a joint statement issued Nov. ...  Read more

Violence Plagued Elections In Nicaragua Deemed Untransparent

AP Photo/Esteban Felix) (AP2011)

latino.foxnews.com - Written By Joel Hirst.  Amid tumultuous screams of “police, murderers," the bodies of Mercedes Torres Pérez and his two sons, Josué Sael and Elmer Torres Cruz were laid to rest in the city of Cusmapa in northern Nicaragua. Looking on, the grieving widow Irenia Cruz wailed, “Punish the murderers of my husband and my two sons,” she said.  Read more

Reality of corrupt Ortega bites Nicaragua

Boston Herald - Nicaragua may be the only country in the world that's perpetually under a full moon, so it's no surprise that the big news out of last Sunday's presidential election was not that incumbent Daniel Ortega was piling up suspicious ...  

US says Nicaragua elections were 'not transparent'

WASHINGTON — The United States said Thursday that elections in Nicaragua were "not transparent" and expressed renewed concern over irregularities reported by several vote monitors.

"All of these actions, and a lack of full accounting of ballots cast, reduce our confidence in the outcome of the elections," State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said in a statement.  Read more

In Nicaragua, fears that Ortega will be the new Somoza

MiamiHerald.com

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Ghosts of tyrants and dictators past haunt Nicaragua, a land of volcanoes and political curses, and some say the nation hasn't broken its jinx.   Read more

Nicaragua's slip back to authoritarianism?

CNN (blog) -Under the Nicaraguan constitution, the legislature alone elects the Supreme Court justices and the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) justices, who are charged with organizing elections. But in January 2010 Ortega changed that. He issued a decree that allowed him to extend the terms of friendly judges. When Liberal judges protested and boycotted the Supreme Court, Ortega replaced seven of them. Without anyone to disbar him, he ran in November 2011 and won 63% of the vote.  Read more

Ortega wins third term following questionable election

Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) - Opponents accuse Ortega was trying to establish one-man rule in Nicaragua.  International monitors responsible for reviewing Sunday's election have made reports detailing what they suspect is widespread election fraud. It is very likely that Ortega, or at least the members of his party, have organized some degree of election fraud to guarantee the outcome in his favor.  Read more

Nicaragua opposition candidate calls Ortega win 'fraud'

BBC - The opposition candidate in Sunday's presidential poll in Nicaragua has rejected the victory of the incumbent President, Daniel Ortega.  Read more

Nicaragua's Fraudulent Election Portends Trouble

Huffington Post (blog) - by Joel D. Hirst  This most recent electoral event was fraught with controversy. First and foremost, the candidacy of President Ortega was itself illegal; the Nicaraguan constitution prohibits presidential re-election. President Ortega out-maneuvered the constitution by obtaining a ruling by the pro-Sandinista Supreme Court stating that the constitution violated Ortega's human rights.  Read more

OAS makes bad “error” in Nicaragua

MiamiHerald.com - BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER - What was most surprising about Nicaragua’s election on Sunday was not that President Daniel Ortega was reelected after a highly questionable electoral process, but that his victory got a seemingly unconditional blessing from 34-country Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza..  Read more