If President Bolanos is ousted, what would the consequences for Nicaragua be?
Nicaragua could face isolation. The US has said that if Bolanos and his aides are impeached, this would immediately rule out a $175m US grant to Nicaragua and possibly $4bn of debt relief. The country could also lose its membership of Cafta, the Central American Free Trade Agreement which brings together the US and Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. There could also be consequences for Nicaragua’s opposition leaders. Aleman’s supporters could be barred from travelling to the US and other countries. This is a specially sensitive issue, because many Liberal Party members fled to the US or sent relatives there after the leftist Sandinista revolutionaries forced the Anastasio Somoza regime from power on 19 July 1979.
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