President Ortega Below 30% in Nicaragua
Less than one third of people in Nicaragua have a positive view of their president’s performance, according to a poll by M&R. 27 per cent of respondents rate Daniel Ortega’s tenure as good or very good.ucted from Apr. 11 to Apr. 14, 2007. Margin of error is 2.5 per cent.

Guatemala Calls General Elections
Guatemala s Electoral Supreme Court (TSE) on Wednesday will call the general elections for September, when the president, vice president, deputies, and municipal governments will be elected.

Salvadorian Distributors Decry Foreign Oil Co
Salvadorian Oil Product Distributor Association President Julio Villagran denounced on Wednesday the oil-national-market control by transnationals.

Venezuela dismisses Washington criticism on IMF, World Bank issue
The Venezuelan government Wednesday dismissed Washington's criticism of its withdrawal from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, saying that the decision was based on "economic and national sovereignty."

Colombian anti-guerrilla militaries die in helicopter crash
Officials reported Wednesday that seven anti-guerrilla militaries died in Colombia's southern Caqueta department when their helicopter crashed for undetermined reasons during a mission to seek illicit farming.