Earlier this month the government of President Daniel Ortega received its strongest warning to date regarding the future of US cooperation with Nicaragua. In one of her first public appearances since arriving in Managua last month, Phyllis Powers, the new US ambassador to Nicaragua, said that US concerns about fiscal transparency, property seizures and the state of democracy in Nicaragua following the controversial November 2011 general elections would make a pending US State Department decision on bilateral aid “especially difficult” this year. End of preview - This article contains approximately 718 words.
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