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NICARAGUA: RULING PARTY INFIGHTING CAUSES COASTAL CHAOS.

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On Aug. 19, four members of the Nicaraguan Consejo Supremo Electoral (CSE) refused to travel to Bluefields on the Atlantic Coast to certify the results of an election there that would have ushered into the Consejo Regional del Atlantico Sur (RAAS) a new slate of regional leaders. The conflict has stalled payments from the central government and has renewed separatist sentiments.

The newly elected officials would have created a new political balance between the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional (FSLN) and the country's ruling party, the Partido Liberal Constitucional (PLC). The four CSE magistrates were PLC partisans.

The four cited the death of the son of another magistrate, Jose Luis Villavicencio, as the reason for their refusal, but the bereaved electoral official refuted the rationale as a poor excuse. Villavicencio denounced the statement saying that his colleagues could not use the sudden death of his son as a pretext and that he had already accredited an alternative magistrate to serve in his place in order that the installation of the RAAS go forward.

Villavicencio declined in his statement to give a reason for the actions of the four and...

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