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Number 232 | Noviembre 2000 |
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua’s Municipal Elections: The Good, the Bad and the Uncertain
The long-awaited and much-feared year 2000 drew to a close in Nicaragua with municipal elections that can be read in various and even contradictory ways. They justify some hope but also some well-founded uncertainties. The parties that ran, those prevented from running and those wanting to run in next year’s elections are all faced with an extraordinary challenge…
as are their grassroots supporters.... continuar...
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
BUDGET GAMES: 2001
President Alemán sent the National Assembly the budget bill for his last year in office on October 31. The following are some of the more salient facts to emerge so far. First,... continuar...
Nicaragua
Disrespect for Political Pluralism Tainted the Elections
For over 16 years, Rosa Marina Zelaya held strategic posts in the Supreme Electoral Council, serving as its president for the past five years. She shares some of her knowledge and viewpoints with envío below.
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Nicaragua
A Country Divided: Relative Defeats and Victories
The biggest success was the FSLN’s victory in Managua but the hands-down winner, even in Managua, was abstention.
All other wins, both Liberal and Sandinista, were ally "technical draws." Had these been presidential elections, the PLC would have won, but only by a narrow margin.
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Nicaragua
Who Abstained and Why?
Since not one pollster predicted the low turnout—from which the two parties to the pact had most to gain—there is a pressing need to investigate voters’ motives for abstaining.
Were people purposefully discouraged from going to the polls,
as some evidence suggests?
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Nicaragua
The Electorate: Continuing Trends and Transition
Is the high abstention rate here to stay?
Is the country becoming less polarized?
Can parties still count on their sure vote?
There are reasons to think that these elections
do not necessarily prefigure next year’s.
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Nicaragua
YATAMA: Rebellion with a Cause?
YATAMA’s week-long street protest against the CSE, ostensibly for blocking its participation in the Atlantic Coast elections, quickly led to the militarization of Puerto Cabezas. What was really at issue?
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Nicaragua
Jinotepe and Diriamba: Two Case Studies of a Defeat
The FSLN lost Jinotepe, one of its bastions. And the PLC lost Diriamba, one of its strategic strongholds. In both cases, the losses can be chalked up to the childish dependence of local leaders on their party’s caudillo bosses and national elite.
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Nicaragua
Juigalpa: A Vote to Punish the PLC
The main reason the PLC was voted out of office in many municipalities it won in 1996 is the corruption of both local and national Liberal government functionaries. Juigalpa is an illustrative example.
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Nicaragua
The Banco de Café Scandal: A Cure that Nearly Killed the Patient
The forced liquidation of Banco de Café and the Central Bank decision to limit its rescue package for Bancafé clients took account holders and the country as a whole by surprise
The crisis of confidence these decisions triggered brought the entire banking system perilously close to collapse.
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Nicaragua
Did Managua’s Gang Members Vote?
Gang members in Managua’s poor barrios had various reasons for abstaining from the vote. We discovered some of these reasons in Reparto Schick, along with a typology of gang voters and abstainers.
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El Salvador
San Salvador’s Government Goes After Garbage
During his campaign, Herty Lewites, Managua’s mayor-elect,
visited San Salvador’s garbage treatment project then nounced
a similar project for Nicaragua’s capital. What caught his fancy?
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Internacional
Defining Left and Right
Nicaragua’s elections were laced with talk of Left and Right.
But what exactly do the world’s Left and Right stand for today?
This is one interesting reflection. More are needed. ... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America