US Interference in Nicaragua Worrisome
The Socialist International has expressed concern in writing this week over the repeated meddling in the Nicaraguan election by US Ambassador Paul Trivelli, Sandinista National Liberation Front leader Tomas Borge informed.

The ex-guerilla and a founder of the FSLN, who participated as a delegate in the regional SI meeting in Uruguay, sent Prensa Latina the document calling for "diplomatic representatives in the Hemisphere to maintain the norms of neutrality and detachment in Latin American elections."

"We are particularly concerned about the repeated interventions of the US ambassadors in Central American elections, such as in the Republic of Nicaragua," the text concluded.

US Ambassador Trivelli not only makes public declarations about Nicaraguan politics, provoking waves of protest there, but has been accused of acting as a governor of an occupied colony.

He has gone so far as to write to rightwing parties in Nicaragua urging them to unify and offering money and advice to hold primaries to choose a single candidate with a chance to defeat FSLN leader Daniel Ortega in the November elections.

Former Nicaraguan President Ortega has accused the present administration, particularly Chancellor Norman Caldera and President Enrique Bolanos of "an evidently servile attitude" toward the US.