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The Guardian
June 26, 2016
The supreme court last week ousted Eduardo Montealegre as leader of the main opposition party, the Independent Liberation party (PLI), in a move widely criticized as politically driven ad criticized by international observers and the Catholic church. A statement signed by the Bishops of the EpiscopalÃÂ ...
Project Syndicate
August 2, 2017
Before the national election last November, the Supreme Court did him another favor, barring Eduardo Montealegre, the main oppositionÃÂ ...
La Prensa (Nicaragua)
December 31, 1999
Entonces lo que viene es que Eduardo Montealegre y los grupos que lo apoyan (MRS y otros partiditos) puedan constituir una verdaderaÃÂ ...
W Radio
December 31, 1999
... nacionales e internacionales a los exfiscales Eduardo Montealegre y Jorge Perdomo por el supuesto complot que orquestaron en su contra.
New Europe
February 16, 2017
I am extremely concerned about the move to replace the liberal politician Eduardo Montealegre from the presidency of the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) last June, as well as the ruling to remove 28 PLI members of the National Assembly, both just ...
The Guardian
November 8, 2016
You also report suggestions that Ortega "used his power over the courts" to remove leading opposition candidates, notably Eduardo Montealegre, whose disputed leadership of the PLI (Independent Liberal Party) was overturned by the supreme electoralÃÂ ...
Business Insider
November 7, 2016
The opposition has been in disarray since Pedro Reyes used the courts to wrest leadership of the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), the main group, from Eduardo Montealegre in June. PLI congressmen who refused to accept the decision, calling Reyes aÃÂ ...
BBC News
November 4, 2016
One of the most recognisable opposition figures is Eduardo Montealegre of the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), who challenged Mr Ortega in the elections in 2006 and 2011.
World Politics Review
November 3, 2016
The court removed Eduardo Montealegre, a vocal Ortega critic, as leader of the principal opposition party, the Independent Liberation Party (PLI), and hand-picked his replacement.
teleSUR English
October 31, 2016
The sector of Nicaragua's political opposition worst affected by the collapse in support for Nicaragua's right wing generally has been that of ex-Sandinistas allied with corruption-tainted banker and perennial loser Eduardo Montealegre and other lessÃÂ ...
The Economist
October 27, 2016
Mr Ortega's main political foe, Eduardo Montealegre, was removed as the PLI's leader by the Ortega-friendly supreme court in June.
Americas Quarterly
October 26, 2016
In July, he banned 28 deputies of the Independent Liberal Party from running in the elections, including its leading presidential candidate, Eduardo Montealegre. In August, Ortega announced that international election observers would not be permitted ...
The National
October 16, 2016
Two years ago the law was changed to allow 70-year-old Ortega to be re-elected indefinitely and in the summer Ortega's party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), was accused of trying to install a one-party regime after Eduardo Montealegre ...
ElEspectador.com
October 8, 2016
En la actualidad cursa en la Corte Constitucional una demanda del exfiscal Eduardo Montealegre que pretende que se reconozca que, en desarrollo del derecho a la paz, el pacto entre el gobierno Santos y las Farc constituye un Acuerdo Especial en losÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
October 1, 2016
... wing, led by corruption tainted banker Eduardo Montealegre, convinced the U.S. and European Union authorities to cut around US$100 million in development cooperation funding to the Sandinista government based on false accusations of electoral fraud.
Yahoo Finance
September 20, 2016
Then there's the lack of opposition. On June 8, 2016, the Nicaraguan Supreme Court decided a six-year-old lawsuit ruling that Daniel Ortega's main opposition in the election -- Eduardo Montealegre -- was no longer the head of his party and was ...
Link TV
September 6, 2016
Earlier this summer, Nicaragua's Supreme Court stepped into the country's presidential race and disqualified leading candidate Eduardo Montealegre of the country's liberal party. The Court appointed Pedro Reyes as a candidate instead, citing he was ...
Havana Times
August 23, 2016
HAVANA TIMES - Following the nullification of Eduardo Montealegre's legal right to represent the PLI [Independent Liberal Party], the National Coalition for Democracy and groups from civil society have chosen to denounce the electoral process set to ...
Jacobin magazine
August 23, 2016
Instead, it settled an old dispute between the PLI's former general secretary Pedro Reyes and the party's newer leadership layer, represented by 2006 presidential runner-up Eduardo Montealegre. The court ruled in Reyes's favor, declaring Montealegre'sÃÂ ...
Bernama
August 19, 2016
In a decision widely criticised as politically motivated, the court banned the leader of the main opposition party, Eduardo Montealegre, from his own party in June. The man who replaced him as the Independent Liberal Party's presidential candidate ...
Frontera News
August 8, 2016
More recently, the Supreme Court ousted Eduardo Montealegre - leader of the opposition Independent Liberal Party (PLI) in June.
Global Risk Insights
August 5, 2016
More recently, the Supreme Court ousted Eduardo Montealegre - leader of the opposition Independent Liberal Party (PLI) in June.
The Guardian
August 3, 2016
In June, the country was criticised for trying to bring about a one-party regime after the supreme court ousted Eduardo Montealegre as leader of the main opposition party, the Independent Liberal party (PLI). Last Friday, the supreme electoral court ...
The Guardian
June 26, 2016
The supreme court last week ousted Eduardo Montealegre as leader of the main opposition party, the Independent Liberation party (PLI), in a move widely criticized as politically driven ad criticized by international observers and the Catholic church.
World Socialist Web Site
June 19, 2016
Less than five months before Nicaragua's November 6 general election, the country's Supreme Court has settled a four-year-old legal dispute within the right-wing opposition Independent Liberal Party (PLI), removing its current leader, Eduardo ...
Havana Times
June 11, 2016
The Justices awarded the legal representation and seals of that party to Pedro Reyes Vallejos, a lawyer and member of one of the three "factions" that had been claiming their right to these symbols against the right of deputy Eduardo Montealegre Rivas.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
June 9, 2016
Current leader Eduardo Montealegre had been building a coalition to compete against President Daniel Ortega, who is running for his third consecutive term.
Yahoo7 News
June 9, 2016
The divested opposition leader, Eduardo Montealegre, immediately slammed the ruling as a "coup" instigated by President Daniel Ortega, who is standing for re-election.
Latin American Herald Tribune
May 26, 2016
BOGOTA - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday asked the Constitutional Court to authorize a referendum he is proposing on an eventual peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group.
The Bogota Post
May 12, 2016
The idea that as an international humanitarian treaty, the final agreement would automatically be given constitutional status emerged from a highly controversial petition filed to the Constitutional Court by ex-attorney general Eduardo Montealegre on ...
The Bogota Post
May 11, 2016
Surprisingly, a vital step towards solving this issue was not made in Havana but on the domestic front: outgoing attorney general Eduardo Montealegre filed a petition to the Constitutional Court on March 28, demanding that the peace agreement be ...
Diario La Opinión Cúcuta
May 5, 2016
El mandatario dijo respecto a la demanda presentada por el exfiscal Eduardo Montealegre ante la Corte Constitucional que con ella se pretende darle un rango de acuerdo especial dentro de las Convenciones de Ginebra a lo que se negocie con las Farc;ÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
May 3, 2016
Former Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre finished his term weeks ago already, but the process to select his successor is underway.
The Bogota Post
April 12, 2016
Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre used his last day in office to submit a bill to legalise abortion in the first six months of pregnancy, a move was designed to protect women from the dangers of clandestine abortions.
Colombia Reports
April 12, 2016
Instead of filing ongoing investigations into the administration's bribing of Congress, spying on the Supreme Court, ties to paramilitaries and the embezzlement of tens of millions of dollars, Morales and her successor Eduardo Montealegre (Liberal ...
Colombia Reports
March 30, 2016
Hours before leaving his post, Colombia's outgoing Prosecutor General presented an audacious proposal to Congress in which he urged to decriminalize abortion.
teleSUR English
March 29, 2016
His arrest was one of the parting acts of outgoing Attorney General Luis Eduardo Montealegre, who stepped down from his post Monday.
teleSUR English
March 28, 2016
The investigations are part of a larger inquiry by Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre to uncover nearly one billion pesos being defrauded from the state.
Semana.com
March 13, 2016
Como la llegada de Perdomo era considerada un hecho cumplido, ni este ni su jefe Eduardo Montealegre se sumaron al jolgorio. En los cargos importantes el que se va siempre prefiere que lo reemplace una persona de confianza que no solo mantenga laÃÂ ...
Big News Network.com
March 11, 2016
This was quickly followed by Attorney General (Fiscal General de la Naci?n), Eduardo Montealegre announcing an investigation into national police corruption and sexual misconduct, as well as the surveillance and intimidation of journalists working on ...
Colombia Reports
March 11, 2016
However, according to Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre the proposed plebiscite would be unconstitutional and would involve an amendment to the constitution.
Colombia Reports
March 9, 2016
Morales' election was eventually nullified, but she'd be replaced with Eduardo Montealegre who proved to be equally eager to continue the investigations into now-proven corruption and other criminal activity carried out within the Uribe administration.
Colombia Reports
March 9, 2016
Uribe and his followers in the opposition have suggested that there is a conspiracy of political persecution at the hands of the Santos administration and the prosecutor General's Office, currently led by Eduardo Montealegre. Mosquera claimed that ...
HIGH TIMES
March 7, 2016
And the scandal has prompted a second investigation into claims of wiretapping and intimidation of journalists by the National Police.
Colombia Reports
March 3, 2016
A report presented at the palace by Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre said that the Special Tribunal for Peace should receive 32,433 open processes in which 110,086 criminal acts are investigated.
New York Times
February 29, 2016
Santos said on his Twitter account that Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre should "open the doors to an international oversight" of the investigation to ensure fairness for Uribe.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 29, 2016
BOGOTA, Colombia - The brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Monday on allegations he was involved in murders and forced disappearances while helping form a far-right death squad in the 1990s.
Latin Correspondent
February 25, 2016
The letter was also directed at Santos' Attorney General, Luis Eduardo Montealegre, and members of the Supreme Court, as MEPs claim that these fugitives need to be captured by law and that the accused and the necessary arrangements are made "for theirÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 17, 2016
Attorney General Eduardo Montealegre confirmed in December that Ms Davila and her team were being wiretapped and spied on by Colombia's National Police.
Al Jazeera America
February 8, 2016
Last year, Prosecutor General Eduardo Montealegre announced that 22 generals are being investigated, but their long overdue prosecution is far from certain.
