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NICARAGUA'S FAR RIGHT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE RUNNING AGAINST THE REGIONAL TIDE.

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Jose Rizo, candidate of the Partido Liberal Constitucionalista (PLC) for the presidency of Nicaragua, revealed elements of his campaign with which he hopes to overcome his fourth-place standing in the polls. His party is widely criticized for cleaving to party leader Arnoldo Aleman, the ex-president who rules the party from behind the walls of his home, where he is serving a sentence after being convicted of fraud. Rizo is running against populism.

Rizo is running from the far right, and chose as a venue for his strategy announcement the XXV Congreso de la Fundacion Nacional Cubano Americana (FNCA) in Miami. He told his avidly anti-Castro audience that a "populist tsunami" is deluging all of Latin America, and its totalitarian bent threatens to erode the region's democracy. There was a tinge of contradiction in his contention that, "a wave of electoral victories of leftist, populist, and demagogic forces" was creating "an anemia of democracy that is damaging and destroying it. The Castros, the Chavezs, the Morales', and others of lesser stature are setting the pattern of leadership that should be assumed by men of good and of principles of our continent, like ourselves."

Rizo is running behind perennial Frente Sandinista para la Liberacion...

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