What was most surprising about Nicaragua’s election last Sunday was not that President Daniel Ortega was re-elected after a highly questionable electoral process, but that his victory got a seemingly unconditional blessing from 34-country Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza.
On Monday, after Ortega was proclaimed the winner with nearly 64 per cent of the vote, Insulza was quoted by an OAS election observation mission statement as saying that “in Nicaragua yesterday, democracy and peace took a step forward.”
Really? I asked Insulza in a telephone interview after
