Miami Herald, 17708/2010, excerpt/extracto.-
The constitution bars Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega from seeking
reelection next year, but that's not stopping the one-time leftist
revolutionary.
Billboards and murals are going up across
Nicaragua announcing ``Daniel -- 2011,'' making it plain that Ortega
intends to stay at the helm.
At 64, Ortega still has some
of the panache of his guerrilla days three decades ago, when the
Sandinista National Liberation Front swept away the Somoza family
dictatorship, which had ruled Nicaragua for four decades. Now, however,
Ortega is laying the groundwork to rule Nicaragua for a long time
himself in apparent defiance of the constitution.
With some arm-twisting, Ortega gained a faint judicial
green light to seek reelection. Last October, he won a ruling from a
Supreme Court stacked with his supporters that Article 147 of the
constitution, which bans the reelection of a sitting president, doesn't
apply to him.
"This is the only country in the world where
the court has declared the constitution unconstitutional. . . . It's a
legal subterfuge,'' said Vilma Núñez, the head of the Nicaraguan Center
for the Defense of Human Rights, which at one time was sympathetic to
the Sandinista front.
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