Nicaraguan elections

In 1990, CIA election meddling in Nicaragua ensured a win for the opposition over the ruling Sandinista-led government. This type of meddling was repeated in the 2000 Serbian election, which saw President Slobodan Milosevic ejected from power. The ouster of Milosevic saw the first demonstrated ...

The nation of Honduras cancelled schools and work, in light of the most recent Presidential Election. The 2017 Presidential Election in ... “We have seen other examples like in Nicaragua where some presidents have decided to stay longer, and longer and longer. That's why we all are afraid of that ...

Shortly before the election, recently retired longtime U.S. diplomat Tom Shannon brought together U.S. ambassadors from throughout Central America. During this meeting, U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Paul Trivelli toldShannon that an Ortega victory “would give Chavez a foothold in the region.” Shannon ...

The socialist party leader said that the plans of the Venezuelan right are similar to that of the Nicaraguan opposition, who decided not to participate in the 2016 presidential elections because they considered it an "electoral farce.” Cabello farther said that the MUD will take a cue from their “protectors", the ...

SOME voters sketched, scratched and scribbled on their ballots. The cleverest crossed out letters from the voting instructions to form dirty words. Photos of their handiwork appeared on Twitter on March 4th as Salvadoreans voted in municipal and legislative elections. One in ten voters defaced their ballots ...

For more than a year now, the U.S. public has been subjected to often speculative yet highly publicized claims about “Russian meddling” in the 2016 presidential campaign. In a recent Salt Lake Tribune commentary, Scott Bell goes so far as to say, “There is no doubt Russia manipulated our 2016 elections, ...

Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia. The long arm of Russian President Vladimir Putin? No, just a small sample of the US' history of intervention in foreign elections.

Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia. The long arm of Vladimir Putin? No, just a small sample of the United States' history of intervention in foreign elections. On Tuesday ...