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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 16 February 2017

NICARAGUA: OAS report fails to assuage concerns

Last month, the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) government led by President Daniel Ortega presented a joint document – the fruit of a three-month period of talks between both sides and meetings with groups representing various sectors. The report was part of the “mechanism of conversation and exchange” agreed in October 2016 by both sides as part of efforts to assuage democracy-related concerns ahead of the November 2016 general elections which produced a sweeping victory for Ortega albeit in a highly questioned electoral process [RC-16-11]. The report has, however, been slammed by the opposition and civil society groups. These complain that it effectively grants a ‘clean slate’ to the FSLN government – which controls all the country’s institutions – and which has recently faced other democracy-related criticism from the international community.

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