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Interview with President of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council

After Nicaragua's municipal elections held on November 9th, the international media launched a barrage of attacks on the country's institutions, targeting in particular the country's electoral authority. In reports from "The Economist" and from journalists like John Carlin in "The Independent", blatant ignorance of Nicaragua's current affairs compounded those corporate media's customary prejudice against left-wing governments in Latin America. The reports were based on false accounts of the election process and its aftermath. For example both "The Economist" report and John Carlin's in "The Independent" claimed there were no international election observers. But there were. On November 25th Tortilla con Sal spoke to Roberto Rivas, President of Nicaragua's electoral authority - which in Nicaragua is a power independent of the legislature, the executive or the judiciary. In this interview he refutes the false accusations published and broadcast in the international corporate media. Read the whole article