FSLN Blasts "Gross US Interference" in Nicaraguan Election

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FSLN BLASTS "GROSS US INTERFERENCE" IN NICARAGUAN ELECTION

Managua, June 2 (RHC)--The Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua has
criticized gross interference by a U.S. State Department official in the
country's upcoming elections. Under-secretary of State for Western
Hemispheric Affairs Lino Gutierrez traveled to Managua on Friday in an
effort to persuade right-wing forces to unite behind one candidate in
November's presidential race.

Speaking before Nicaraguan political and business leaders and at a press
conference later in the day, Gutierrez lashed out at the Sandinistas'
admiration of Cuban President Fidel Castro and at Sandinista leader Daniel
Ortega's recent visit to Libya. The Cuban-born State Department official
asserted that Marxism is in "the garbage bin of history" and that the
Sandinistas are not democrats because they haven't returned all the
properties nationalized -- including some U.S. properties -- following the
overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza.

Gutierrez openly expressed his and the Bush administration's disgust
concerning the solid electoral preference that opinion polls are giving to
the Sandinistas, citing his hope that "the Nicaraguan people don't want to
return to the past."

Agustin Jarquin, vice presidential candidate on the Sandinista ticket, said
that Nicaragua's destiny is of sole concern to Nicaraguans, and not to other
governments, recalling that Daniel Ortega has promised to respect a market
economy, but one with a human face to confront poverty. Earlier this week,
Ortega said that his political party demands respectful relations between
Nicaragua and the United States.

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