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NICARAGUA’S ruling left-wing party looks on course to win next year’s elections, according to the latest poll, which shows more than two-thirds of the electorate intending to vote for the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
A wide-ranging survey conducted by the M&R polling company two years after the last national elections reveals that 63.5 per cent of Nicaraguans would vote for President Daniel Ortega’s party.
The poll’s finding of huge support for the government comes as a major blow to Western powers, which have repeatedly claimed that Mr Ortega and the Sandinistas are unpopular and rule as a dictatorship.
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
