Miami Herald (subscription), FL
For awhile, it looked like a sea change in the dirty brand of Nicaraguan politics that has been threatening President Enrique Bolaņos' power for a year.
Then reality struck, and the hemisphere's second-poorest country after Haiti found itself again trapped in the machinations of two ex-presidents -- one a convicted thief of public funds who is seeking a pardon, the other a three-time electoral loser hoping to win in 2006.
''Everyone is putting their personal interests before the country's, but that's nothing new in Nicaragua,'' said Roberto Courtney, director of the watchdog organization Ethics and Transparency.
More...
|