Weekly Report - 25 July 2006

A strong blow to Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega, in the form of damnation with very faint praise, has come from none other that his brother Humberto, who commanded the army from the revolution until 1995, five years after the Sandinistas were swept from power in elections. He said the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) was no longer recognisable as the organisation that had toppled the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979.