[CIMC-work] Fw: U.S. Interferes Again in Nicaragua

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Tom,

If you don't mind, please publish news and calls-for-action to the Chicago
Independent Media Center newswire. This is a working list, for the
day-to-day planning and operations of CIMC participants.

Thanks, Tom.


Chris




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----- Original Message -----
From: "nscchicago" <nscchicago at igc.org>
To: <nionysn at igc.org>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:46 AM
Subject: [CIMC-work] Fw: U.S. Interferes Again in Nicaragua


> Tom Baker here.  FYI  and  action.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicaragua Network" <nicanet at afgj.org>
> To: "Nicaragua Network Hotline" <nicanet-hotline at afgj.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:24 PM
> Subject: U.S. Interferes Again in Nicaragua
>
>
> > Nicaragua Network Hotline
> > Special Action Alert
> > January 8, 2004
> >
> > United States Again Interferes in Nicaraguan Internal
> > Affairs!
> > Call the U.S. State Department to Protest!
> > Protect Nicaragua's Sovereignty and Right to
> > Self-Determination!
> >
> > Managua newspaper "El Nuevo Diario" reported today "open
> > interference" in Nicaragua's affairs, as U.S. Ambassador
> > to Nicaragua Barbara Moore hosted meetings of right-wing
> > political parties, what the Embassy calls the country's
> > "democratic forces" in the ambassador's residency during
> > the last few days and evenings.  The meetings were an
> > attempt to influence the selection of the leadership of
> > the country's National Assembly, expected to be voted on
> > today, Thursday, January 8.
> >
> > The Embassy classifies the FSLN as not belonging to the
> > "democratic forces."  This is an extraordinary assessment
> > because the current democratic system in which successive
> > political parties have succeeded each other peacefully was
> > set up by the Sandinista government with the Constitution
> > of 1987.  Before in Nicaragua's history, opposition
> > parties only were able to achieve power by putting
> > together an army and taking the government by force.
> >
> > On Tuesday political party members favored by the U.S. met
> > two times with Ambassador Moore who put strong pressure on
> > them to make sure that the "democratic forces take control
> > of the legislature," according to Maria Eugenia Sequeira
> > of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC).  El Nuevo
> > Diario reports that the "open interference" of the U.S.
> > has included pressure on President Enrique Bolaños to
> > accept a candidate from the PLC for the presidency of the
> > National Assembly.
> >
> > This would mean that Bolaños would abandon an accord with
> > the FSLN in which Jaime Cuadra of the Blue and White Bench
> > would be re-elected president of the Assembly.  Last
> > week's Hotline reported that Cuadra had suffered a stroke
> > but was expected to recover.  The Hotline also explained
> > that PLC presence in the leadership body had been rejected
> > by the Bolaños Blue and White Bench and the FSLN because
> > the PLC members were seen as determined to obtain the
> > release of former President Arnoldo Aleman from house
> > arrest and it was thought they would therefore use their
> > position to distort the legislative process.
> >
> > The principal issue for U.S. solidarity activists,
> > however, is not which political parties have more or less
> > representation in the leadership of the Assembly but is
> > rather uncalled-for U.S. involvement in Nicaragua's
> > internal affairs and, secondarily, Ambassador Barbara
> > Moore's distortion of the role played in recent Nicaraguan
> > history by the Sandinistas.
> >
> > This intervention follows close on the heels of blatant
> > U.S. interference in the 2001 presidential elections in
> > Nicaragua when high-level U.S. State Department officials
> > threatened Nicaraguan voters with economic sanctions and
> > worse if they elected the Sandinista candidate.  There
> > have also been more recent statements by members of the
> > U.S. Congress who visited Nicaragua last August; Cass
> > Ballenger and Jerry Seller urged the Liberal factions,
> > which they referred to as "democratic forces," to unite
> > against the Sandinistas for the 2004 (municipal) and 2006
> > (presidential) elections.
> >
> > Call the Maeve Dwyer at the Nicaragua Desk at the State
> > Department at (202) 647-3518 and express your disapproval
> > of U.S. interference in Nicaragua's internal political
> > affairs.  Ms. Dwyer's message machine says that she will
> > be away at a training on Jan. 8-9.  You can leave a
> > message on her voice mail or call the general comment line
> > for the State Department at (202) 647-6575 and press 1 to
> > leave a message.
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