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Number 304 | Noviembre 2006 |
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Nicaragua
From “Governing from Below” To Governing Right Up at the Top
Daniel Ortega and the FSLN finally retook the presidency,
a victory only explained by the Right’s split down the middle.
The Liberals—PLC and the ALN—won a huge majoritybetween them,
with only a small percentage opting for the MRS, the other leftist option.
For this and other reasons, there’s less room on the political and economic stage
to play to the crowd than the victor would have wished for.... continuar...
Nicaragua
NICARAGUA BRIEFS
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS The constitutional reforms pushed through in 2005 by the FSLN and PLC benches in accord with the pact between their leaders are to go into effect next January 20, ten days... continuar...
Nicaragua
The FSLN in the National Assembly: Pact with the PLC or Ally with the ALN?
It was always said that the crucial result in these elections would be the new composition of the National Assembly. As it turns out, the new parliament isn’t so new after all. The allocation of legislators could allow the FSLN
to continue its pact with the PLC, which has had such negative consequences for the country. Or it could negotiate an alliance with the ALN,
legitimizing it with national and international capital. The FSLN has a precarious balancing act to perform over the next five years.... continuar...
Nicaragua
A Characterization of FSLN Voters And a Few Forecasts
Can we characterize the voters who
gave Daniel Ortega back the presidency?
Can the “political soul” of today’s Sandinista voter be described?
Is there a classification for the hordes of extras in this Triumphal March?
Let’s try, beginning the exploration from the pen of Rubén Darío.... continuar...
Nicaragua
Feminism Asks Questions Of the New Government
Nicaraguan feminists hope this new government
will recognize and extend the rights of women,
especially those who suffer the worst discrimination
for being poor, indigenous, black, lesbian, differently-abled
or living in rural areas. How will the new FSLN government respond?... continuar...
Nicaragua
A Dramatic Change and A Cultural Tragedy
In the days following the FSLN’s electoral triumph,
Daniel Ortega’s assurances to bankers and foreign investors
that there would be no “dramatic change” in macroeconomic policy
earned him the “benefit of the doubt.” from analysts and business leaders.
But his electoral campaign, laced with a constant manipulation of Christian culture, topped by the dramatic criminalizing of therapeutic abortion right before the elections, thanks mainly to the votes of the Sandinista legislative bench,earned him mistrust, concern and doubts about the benefit
from other quarters.... continuar...
Nicaragua
A Respectful Message to The Sandinista Movement
Why were the MRS electoral results so much lower than expected? And how did Daniel Ortega get so much Sandinista support,
considering his political trajectory over the past few years?
These questions are easy, but their answers are complicated.
Looking at Nicaragua and Sandinismo from physically far away
but close to its people’s causes, I’ve put together a few responses.
... continuar...
Costa Rica
Politics Comes to the “Third Space”
A concert by MRS Alliance vice presidential candidate
Carlos Mejía Godoy and his group, Los de Palacagüina, in La Carpio,
that emblematic community of Nicaraguan migrants in Costa Rica,
generated questions and left behind some bitter-sweet feelings.
It revealed the distance separating Nicaragua’s political class
from those driven out of Nicaragua by hunger.... continuar...
América Latina
A Portrait of the Chávez Government
On the heels of Daniel Ortega’s electoral victory in Nicaragua
we’ve been showered with analyses defining his future government
as identical to Hugo Chávez’s brand of leftism in Venezuela
or slightly to the right of it. But is there any basis for that?
Is Nicaragua’s reality at all comparable to Venezuela’s?
What indeed is the nature of Chávez’s government?... continuar...
América Latina
Two Opposing Solutions to Latin America’s Two-Sided Problem
Latin America’s essential problem, claims this long-time student of the region,
is that no effective link has ever been created between social movements
and political parties that accept placing social struggles clearly within
an institutional framework we could call at least formally democratic.
The key to this kind of social democracy oscillates between
two opposing tendencies today: Chile’s successful globalization
and the more radical—albeit more fragile—model taking shape in Bolivia.... continuar...
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a monthly magazine of analysis on Central America