World Peace Herald, DC
A uneasy calm has settled over Nicaragua after an agreement brokered by the United Nations and a Catholic cardinal rescued President Enrique Bolanos from a "constitutional coup" that would have stripped him of most of his powers.
"We are in a holding period," said Manuel Orozco, Nicaragua specialist at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy group.
Nicaragua's democracy came under assault when former President Daniel Ortega and his cadre of supporters in the Marxist Sandinista party joined forces with insurgents in former President Arnoldo Aleman's Liberal Party.
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