Weekly Report - 12 July 2005

After being twice wrongfooted by Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, President Enrique Bolaños has fallen back on denouncing a conspiracy to remove him from power in order to later declare an amnesty which would free former president Arnoldo Alemán. The opposition, meanwhile, does not appear to be working entirely in unison - and the public, apparently taking Bolaños's proposals at face value, is overwhelmingly in favour of them.