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	<title>Comments on: OPEN LETTER FROM U.S. ACADEMICS ON SALVADORAN ELECTIONS</title>
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		<title>By: rupmoreno</title>
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		<dc:creator>rupmoreno</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you COHA for helping circulate this important letter around the world! 

Thank you to all signers for uncovering the truth about current events in El Salvador: Manipulation by USA of internal affairs; corruption; and political violence to repress and contain the will of the most underprivelged people in that country!
Ruperto</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you COHA for helping circulate this important letter around the world! </p>
<p>Thank you to all signers for uncovering the truth about current events in El Salvador: Manipulation by USA of internal affairs; corruption; and political violence to repress and contain the will of the most underprivelged people in that country!<br />
Ruperto</p>
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		<title>By: FREEDOM</title>
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		<dc:creator>FREEDOM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for your concerns about the salvadorean elections. 

Something like that, a fraudalent elections just happened in the neighboorhood, in Nicaragua, during the municipal elections of November 09, 2008.

Democracy, as we know it, the power and the right of the people to decide their own affairs and elect their authorities is at risk nowadays in Nicaragua. With the recent massive electoral fraud in our municipal elections, we are sliding back into dictatorship rule, which we thought to be a thing of the past after toppling the 45-year Somoza dictatorship in 1979.
For your information, I would like to share a brief chronology of recent events:

•	In 1998, FSLN and PLC leaders Daniel Ortega and Arnoldo Aleman agreed to a corrupt alliance and a constitutional amendment that would allow any party to claim power with only 35 percent of the vote.
•	In November 2006, with the benefit of this low threshold, and the division of the vote among various political parties, Daniel Ortega was elected president with 38% of the popular vote.
•	Since coming to power in January 2007, Daniel Ortega has blurred the lines between his family, the party and the state, using his own house as the presidential house as well as the FSLN party headquarters, as well as giving benefits and jobs to people in his immediate family and circle of confidents.  
•	In January 2007, Nicaragua signed the ALBA agreement with Venezuela, but has used the funds from this agreement in a completely discretionary way, without disclosing income and expenses, and without allowing any oversight of the funds by Nicaragua’s National Assembly. 
•	In September 2007, the Nicaraguan Assembly confirmed its October 2006 decision to penalize therapeutic abortion, joining a handful of countries around the world that deny this fundamental human right to women. 
•	In June 2008, the Supreme Electoral Council, controlled by the FSLN and the PLC, declared two significant opposition parties illegal (Sandinista Renovation Movement-MRS and the Conservative Party-PC), despite insufficient evidence to support this course of action, specially in the case of the MRS. On the other hand, parties that are considered allies of the FSLN (such as Alternativa por el Cambio) have maintained their legal status even when low vote totals in previous elections should have disqualified them from participating in the current elections. 
•	In August 2008, internationally acclaimed poet Ernesto Cardenal was tried on trumped-up charges by an FSLN friendly judge, in retaliation for Cardenal’s critiques of the government and his friendly reception in Paraguay (where Ortega cancelled a trip due to large protests against Ortega organized by feminist organizations). 
•	In October 2008, the government brought criminal charges against independent journalists and nongovernmental organizations, including widely respected journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, the network of civil society organizations Coordinadora Civil, The Center for Communications Research (CINCO), and the Women’s Autonomous Movement (MAM), a national feminist organization. 
•	In November 2008, the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) did not allow many international organizations from observing the elections, including the European Union, the Washington-based Organization of American States and the Atlanta-based Carter Center. Local observers were also not allowed to witness the elections process, including Etica y Transparencia and .- Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia IPADE, both widely respected Nicaraguan nonprofits, which have done an excellent job monitoring previous elections. On Election Day, opposition parties were denied access to the actual counting of the votes. Subsequently, the CSE produced results that contradict the results obtained when counting carbon copy results of all voting totals, and then deleted all voting information from their public website. Finally, thousands of ballots marked for the opposition were found in the municipal dump in León, northwest of Managua.

As is obvious in the above chronology of events and the related newspaper articles by respected international media, Nicaraguan democracy is in great peril, and a dictatorship is already a reality, since the popular will of the people is not being respected by the government. We are at serious risk of another civil war, which could mean the destabilization of the whole Central American region.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your concerns about the salvadorean elections. </p>
<p>Something like that, a fraudalent elections just happened in the neighboorhood, in Nicaragua, during the municipal elections of November 09, 2008.</p>
<p>Democracy, as we know it, the power and the right of the people to decide their own affairs and elect their authorities is at risk nowadays in Nicaragua. With the recent massive electoral fraud in our municipal elections, we are sliding back into dictatorship rule, which we thought to be a thing of the past after toppling the 45-year Somoza dictatorship in 1979.<br />
For your information, I would like to share a brief chronology of recent events:</p>
<p>•	In 1998, FSLN and PLC leaders Daniel Ortega and Arnoldo Aleman agreed to a corrupt alliance and a constitutional amendment that would allow any party to claim power with only 35 percent of the vote.<br />
•	In November 2006, with the benefit of this low threshold, and the division of the vote among various political parties, Daniel Ortega was elected president with 38% of the popular vote.<br />
•	Since coming to power in January 2007, Daniel Ortega has blurred the lines between his family, the party and the state, using his own house as the presidential house as well as the FSLN party headquarters, as well as giving benefits and jobs to people in his immediate family and circle of confidents.<br />
•	In January 2007, Nicaragua signed the ALBA agreement with Venezuela, but has used the funds from this agreement in a completely discretionary way, without disclosing income and expenses, and without allowing any oversight of the funds by Nicaragua’s National Assembly.<br />
•	In September 2007, the Nicaraguan Assembly confirmed its October 2006 decision to penalize therapeutic abortion, joining a handful of countries around the world that deny this fundamental human right to women.<br />
•	In June 2008, the Supreme Electoral Council, controlled by the FSLN and the PLC, declared two significant opposition parties illegal (Sandinista Renovation Movement-MRS and the Conservative Party-PC), despite insufficient evidence to support this course of action, specially in the case of the MRS. On the other hand, parties that are considered allies of the FSLN (such as Alternativa por el Cambio) have maintained their legal status even when low vote totals in previous elections should have disqualified them from participating in the current elections.<br />
•	In August 2008, internationally acclaimed poet Ernesto Cardenal was tried on trumped-up charges by an FSLN friendly judge, in retaliation for Cardenal’s critiques of the government and his friendly reception in Paraguay (where Ortega cancelled a trip due to large protests against Ortega organized by feminist organizations).<br />
•	In October 2008, the government brought criminal charges against independent journalists and nongovernmental organizations, including widely respected journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, the network of civil society organizations Coordinadora Civil, The Center for Communications Research (CINCO), and the Women’s Autonomous Movement (MAM), a national feminist organization.<br />
•	In November 2008, the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) did not allow many international organizations from observing the elections, including the European Union, the Washington-based Organization of American States and the Atlanta-based Carter Center. Local observers were also not allowed to witness the elections process, including Etica y Transparencia and .- Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia IPADE, both widely respected Nicaraguan nonprofits, which have done an excellent job monitoring previous elections. On Election Day, opposition parties were denied access to the actual counting of the votes. Subsequently, the CSE produced results that contradict the results obtained when counting carbon copy results of all voting totals, and then deleted all voting information from their public website. Finally, thousands of ballots marked for the opposition were found in the municipal dump in León, northwest of Managua.</p>
<p>As is obvious in the above chronology of events and the related newspaper articles by respected international media, Nicaraguan democracy is in great peril, and a dictatorship is already a reality, since the popular will of the people is not being respected by the government. We are at serious risk of another civil war, which could mean the destabilization of the whole Central American region.</p>
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		<title>By: nicadeniquinohomo</title>
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		<dc:creator>nicadeniquinohomo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I imagine that all these people who are so concerned about clean elections in Latin America have expressed a similar concern for the recent elections in Nicaragua. I&#039;m interested in hearing their condemnation to the worst fraud in the history of the country.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I imagine that all these people who are so concerned about clean elections in Latin America have expressed a similar concern for the recent elections in Nicaragua. I&#8217;m interested in hearing their condemnation to the worst fraud in the history of the country.</p>
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		<title>By: senorpescado</title>
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		<dc:creator>senorpescado</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanks to all that signed this
means a lot

however for someone that has been in El Sal since 1983, and moved there in 1994,
 words, signatories are mute,

best way is to kick out all family members of the rich-ARENAZI  in USA and or hassle them to the max, in their properties, in colleges and more
there are many ways
hommies can assist

Viva El Frente/Verde</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks to all that signed this<br />
means a lot</p>
<p>however for someone that has been in El Sal since 1983, and moved there in 1994,<br />
 words, signatories are mute,</p>
<p>best way is to kick out all family members of the rich-ARENAZI  in USA and or hassle them to the max, in their properties, in colleges and more<br />
there are many ways<br />
hommies can assist</p>
<p>Viva El Frente/Verde</p>
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