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Weekly Report - 29 August 2006
NICARAGUA: After losing old friends, Ortega attracts old enemies
After having lost most of its founding fathers, the Frente Sandinista de
Liberación Nacional (FSLN) has been attracting the support of its old enemies.
The most recent recruit is none other than the party of the Somoza dynasty, the
Partido Liberal Nacionalista (PLN), which the revolutionary government headed by
President Daniel Ortega had proscribed. Though this made the predictable
headlines, the PLN has experienced a fate similar to that of the Sandinistas:
the descendants of the Somozas have migrated to the Partido Liberal
Constitucionalista (PLC) led by convicted former president Arnoldo Alemán.
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