{"id":838,"date":"2006-10-06T09:38:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=838"},"modified":"2006-10-06T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-06T16:46:25","slug":"us-interference-in-nicaragua-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/10\/06\/us-interference-in-nicaragua-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"US Interference in Nicaragua Elections ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_10_06_nicaragua.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_10_06_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quest.quixote.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20060920\/i\/r2904510480.jpg?x=230&#038;y=345&#038;sig=UqR7TiEBw6gLxNg9X4BZUA--\" alt=\"Daniel Ortega\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Tom Loudon, co-Director of the Quixote Center live from Managua, Jennifer Atlee, also with the Quixote Center, live from Washington DC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During a recent three day visit to Central America, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to field questions about Nicaragua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elections and in particular, the Nicaraguan presidential candidate and former president Daniel Ortega. Rumsfeld is in the region for an international meeting of defense ministers of the Western hemisphere. He told reporters, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get involved in politics in the United States, so you can be certain I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get involved in politics in Nicaragua.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In spite of this, Rumsfeld met with the current Nicaraguan president Enrique Bolanos during his stay. Nicaraguans will head to the polls on November 5th to elect a new President. Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Front for National Liberation, or FSLN, is currently the leading candidate. Despite Rumsfeld\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s denial, a delegation of activists and academics is traveling to Nicaragua to investigate US intervention in the upcoming elections. A previous delegation in June condemned the US role among civil society organizations and political parties in Nicaragua. In particular, US Ambassador Paul Trivelli has called Daniel Ortega a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tiger who hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed his stripes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and has alluded to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reevaluation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 relationship to Nicaragua should Ortega win the election. <\/p>\n<p>To sign the Quixote Center&#8217;s petition, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/quest.quixote.org\">quest.quixote.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Tom Loudon, co-Director of the Quixote Center live from Managua, Jennifer Atlee, also with the Quixote Center, live from Washington DC During a recent three day visit to Central America, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to field questions about Nicaragua\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elections and in particular, the Nicaraguan presidential candidate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}