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Weekly Report - 24 May 2005
NICARAGUA: OAS called in to gauge 'two headed dictatorship'
For the second time in eight months an OAS mission has arrived in Nicaragua to assess whether there have been breaches, or threatened breaches, of the Inter-American Democratic Charter. This arrival has been welcomed by the beleaguered president, Enrique Bolaños, and looked upon kindly by the US, but it is not at all clear - particularly in the light of recent events in Ecuador - what meaningful action the OAS will be able to take under the banner of the charter.
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