The commission included Nicaraguan Ambassador to the US, Francisco Aguirre, Minister of Labor Wilfredo Navarro and Aleman's press secretary, Carlos Briceno. Aguirre said the conditions in Nicaragua are the same as or better than free trade zone factories in other countries. Health strike settled with workers claiming victory. The strike of interns and residents that had partially paralyzed a number of hospitals in Managua has ended. Still pending are key items in the collective bargaining agreement.
Preparations proceed for Caribbean Coast elections.
The other parties are small regional groupings, almost all of them new, with the exception of Yatama. She says a potentially more difficult problem is access to certain remote areas, particularly in the Bocana de Paiwas region. Convicted drug trafficker freed causing uproar. Convicted drug trafficker Norwin Meneses was released this week, after serving only half of his sentence. The release, supposedly on direct orders of Supreme Court President Guillermo Vargas Sandino, touched off a firestorm of protest.