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Weekly Report - 9 May 2006
NICARAGUA: Foreign interference on all sides
Foreign interference in Nicaraguan politics has become a major issue in the run-up to the November elections. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and a former Salvadorean president have joined US ambassador Paul Trivelli as targets of complaints from different contenders and, in some cases, of accusations from each other.
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