CONCLUDING NOTE As we have seen, electoral conditions in Nicaragua in...
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CONCLUDING NOTE As we have seen, electoral conditions in Nicaragua in 1984 were far more favorable than in El Salvador and Guatemala, and the observer team of LASA found the election in Nicaragua to have been “a model of probity and fairness” by Latin American standards.111 In El Salvador and Guatemala, none of the five basic preconditions of a free election was met.
chapter: 3 Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua