Weekly Report - 30 March 2004
NICARAGUA: Bolaños's `national deal' off to a stumble
The first step towards President Enrique Bolaños's `national deal' — a law to depoliticise the judiciary — degenerated into scuffles on 25 March when a group of judges and magistrates burst into the national assembly to protest. To complicate matters further, both Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and jailed former President Arnoldo Alemán separately rejected Bolaños's call for an all-party `dialogue' on his scheme.
The Bolaños package is a mixed one. It proposes:
The Bolaños package is a mixed one. It proposes:
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