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Subject: [nicanet-action] US Group Condemns Bush Administration
Date: 24 Apr 2006 12:56:12 -0500
From: "chuck ka
Press Release
April 24, 2006
US Group Condemns Bush Administration Interference in Nicaraguan
Election
The Nicaragua Network in its annual National Leadership Meeting
strongly condemned US government intervention in Nicaragua's
presidential election scheduled for November 5, 2006.
The Nicaragua Network, a US national network of 200 local sister
city, solidarity, fair trade, and environmental justice groups held
its annual meeting in Washington, DC, April 21-23. The delegates
to the conference adopted a resolution condemning US intervention
and initiating a campaign to expose and counter US government
interference in Nicaragua's upcoming election.
"What the US government is doing in Nicaragua would be illegal if
a foreign government tried to do it in the US," Rochester, NY area
pediatrician and Nicaragua Network board member Arnold Matlin, MD
said. The US Agency for International Development and the
pseudo-independent National Endowment for Democracy are funding
right-wing groups and political parties in an effort to determine
the outcome of the election.
Board Chair Donna Leist from Cincinnati, OH said, "US Ambassador
Paul Trivelli is the worst of a long line of meddling ambassadors
to Nicaragua.
He is a guest in that sovereign country. That doesn't give him the
right to dictate to them."
Trivelli has been pressuring right-wing parties in Nicaragua to
unify behind a single candidate to prevent the election of former
Sandinista President Daniel Ortega or former Mayor of Managua Herty
Lewites, who split off from the FSLN and is running as the candidate
of the Sandinista Renovation Movement.
"The people of the US should be as outraged as the people of
Nicaragua,"
National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman stated. "How would US voters
react if the Ambassador of Great Britain told us who we should vote
for? I seem to remember that we fought a war to get out from under
their thumb."
Kaufman will lead a Nicaragua Network election investigation
delegation to Nicaragua June 17-24, 2006 to meet with the parties,
groups receiving US funding, and those that aren't. The group will
also attempt to meet with US diplomats and will conduct radio and
television interviews urging the Nicaraguan people to choose their
own president free of US government interference.
The Nicaragua Network has already called for the replacement of
Ambassador Trivelli and has other actions US citizens can take
listed on its web page www.nicanet.org <http://www.nicanet.org/> .
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Subject: [nicanet-action] US Group Condemns Bush Administration
Date: 24 Apr 2006 12:56:12 -0500
From: "chuck ka
Press Release
April 24, 2006
US Group Condemns Bush Administration Interference in Nicaraguan
Election
The Nicaragua Network in its annual National Leadership Meeting
strongly condemned US government intervention in Nicaragua's
presidential election scheduled for November 5, 2006.
The Nicaragua Network, a US national network of 200 local sister
city, solidarity, fair trade, and environmental justice groups held
its annual meeting in Washington, DC, April 21-23. The delegates
to the conference adopted a resolution condemning US intervention
and initiating a campaign to expose and counter US government
interference in Nicaragua's upcoming election.
"What the US government is doing in Nicaragua would be illegal if
a foreign government tried to do it in the US," Rochester, NY area
pediatrician and Nicaragua Network board member Arnold Matlin, MD
said. The US Agency for International Development and the
pseudo-independent National Endowment for Democracy are funding
right-wing groups and political parties in an effort to determine
the outcome of the election.
Board Chair Donna Leist from Cincinnati, OH said, "US Ambassador
Paul Trivelli is the worst of a long line of meddling ambassadors
to Nicaragua.
He is a guest in that sovereign country. That doesn't give him the
right to dictate to them."
Trivelli has been pressuring right-wing parties in Nicaragua to
unify behind a single candidate to prevent the election of former
Sandinista President Daniel Ortega or former Mayor of Managua Herty
Lewites, who split off from the FSLN and is running as the candidate
of the Sandinista Renovation Movement.
"The people of the US should be as outraged as the people of
Nicaragua,"
National Co-Coordinator Chuck Kaufman stated. "How would US voters
react if the Ambassador of Great Britain told us who we should vote
for? I seem to remember that we fought a war to get out from under
their thumb."
Kaufman will lead a Nicaragua Network election investigation
delegation to Nicaragua June 17-24, 2006 to meet with the parties,
groups receiving US funding, and those that aren't. The group will
also attempt to meet with US diplomats and will conduct radio and
television interviews urging the Nicaraguan people to choose their
own president free of US government interference.
The Nicaragua Network has already called for the replacement of
Ambassador Trivelli and has other actions US citizens can take
listed on its web page www.nicanet.org <http://www.nicanet.org/> .
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