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Families of Lockerbie bombing victims receive compensation from Libya

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- 1 days and 6 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/25990?ns=guardianpageName=UK+news%3A+Families+of+Lockerbie+bombing+victims+receive+compensation+from+Libyach=UK+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Lockerbie+plane+bombing%2CLibya+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CScotland+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Matthew+Weaverc7=2008_11_21c8=1121864c9=articlec10=GUc11=UK+newsc12=Lockerbie+plane+bombingc13=c14=h2=GU%2FUK+news%2FLockerbie+plane+bombing" width="1" height="1" //divpThe families of the US victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing say they have received full compensation from the Libyan government./ppAt a news conference at the US Congress yesterday, the families declared victory in their quest for justice in the case./pp"Until today, Libyan officials claimed it had long fulfilled justice to the families," said Kara Weipz, of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103 group. Her brother had been a passenger on the plane. "For many years, we were the forgotten victims of terrorism. Today is historic because Libya has finally fulfilled 100% justice to the Pan Am 103 families."/ppShe said the compensation was "in no way a replacement for seeing justice served to the terrorists in a court of law, but as a foreign government was responsible, there was no other avenue to hold Libyan officials accountable./pp"We are free now to close this chapter in our nightmare," said Weipz./ppUnder the agreement worked out between US and Libyan officials in August, Libya agreed to hand over $1.5bn. /ppThe sum completes compensation payments to the US families of the Lockerbie victims and the families of those killed and wounded in a 1986 attack on a Berlin disco./ppThe agreement also called for $300m in compensation to be paid for the Libyan victims of US airstrikes that were ordered by former president Ronald Reagan, in retaliation for the Berlin bombing. /ppThe Bush administration says no US government money will be used for those payments but has not discussed the source of the money./ppThe Lockerbie bombing in December 1988, killed all 269 aboard the flight, including the plane's crew, 180 Americans and 11 people on the ground./ppLibya's once fraught relations with western countries have improved since 2003, when its leader Muammar Gaddafi renounced terrorism./ppEarlier this month the Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi's, the Libyan jailed for life over the Lockerbie bombing was refused bail in a Scottish appeal court./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/lockerbie"Lockerbie plane bombing/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/libya"Libya/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"United States/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland"Scotland/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism"Global terrorism/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227268944606112112061455599"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227268944606112112061455599" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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Football: Manchester United injury worries for Aston Villa match

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- 1 days and 6 hours ago

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/52266?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+Injury+concerns+for+Manchester+United+ahead+of+trip+to+Aston+Villach=Footballc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Manchester+United+%28Football%29%2CAston+Villa+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CPremier+Leaguec6=Mike+Adamsonc7=2008_11_21c8=1121854c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Manchester+Unitedc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FManchester+United" width="1" height="1" //divpManchester United have several injury worries ahead of their Premier League match at Aston Villa tomorrow. Dimitar Berbatov and Wes Brown are both definitely out, Rio Ferdinand is unlikely to play and Wayne Rooney is also a doubt after missing England's friendly in Germany on Wednesday./ppBerbatov picked up a hamstring injury on international duty with Bulgaria this week, limping off during their game with Serbia. Scans revealed he has not suffered a muscle tear, but he will miss tomorrow's match, Tuesday's Champions League fixture at Villarreal and possibly next weekend's derby with City./ppBrown will be out for several weeks after undergoing exploratory surgery on his ongoing ankle problem, and fellow defender Ferdinand is unlikely to feature at Villa Park because of a back injury. "Rio is very doubtful for tomorrow, I don't think he'll make it," Sir Alex Ferguson said today. "Rooney has a good chance, he trained on Wednesday and Thursday and if he comes through today he should be involved. Wes will be missing for a few weeks. There's no timescale on it, but may be about 4-5 weeks. It's disappointing, but we've got cover with Gary [Neville] and Rafael, and John O'Shea can also play there."/ppFerguson will have to watch tomorrow's game from the stands as part of his two-match suspension, after being found guilty of improper conduct by the FA for his post-match rant at referee Mike Dean following United's 4-3 victory over Hull. It is the second time Ferguson has been consigned to the stands in the last 12 months, having served a suspension last Christmas for his verbal attack on Mark Clattenburg./ppToday he admitted that he was to blame for losing his temper, but said the FA's respect campaign may be an unworthwhile venture because managers will always be angered by the human errors of referees. "It happens," Ferguson said. "It is my own fault. The [disciplinary panel's] job is not to consider the performance level of referees. You will always get inconsistent decisions because every referee has their own opinions of things and his own judgement about things. That is one of the great things about our game. That has not changed from the day refereeing started."/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/manchesterunited"Manchester United/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/astonvilla"Aston Villa/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227272530372112113081454945"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Footballcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227272530372112113081454945" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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Warcraft Identity of Obama's FCC Transition Team Co-Chair Revealed

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Earlier on Boing Boing, Cory blogged that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Net Neutrality advocates and "virtual worlds nuts" Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford to co-chair his FCC transition team. Okay, so we might know the guy as Kevin Werbach out here in meatspace, but to his Terror Nova Guild buddies, he's better known as Supernovan Jenkins (the first name presumably a reference to Werbach's Supernova tech conference series), and he's a Level 70 Tauren Shaman. Livejournaler Waltermonkey opines on the deeper meaning of Werbach's WoW identity: What does this tell us about him, as a person, as a gamer, as a government official? I will attempt to translate all the dorkese. 1. - CULTURAL RELATIVISM Every player in WoW belongs to one of two warring factions, Alliance or Horde. Werbach is Horde. Children often choose to be Alliance because they perceive them as "the good guys", but students of history (both ours and Azeroth's) recognize that Alliance culture is based on medieval European culture and Horde culture is based on the indigenous cultures that were supplanted by the West. Werbach is a Tauren (a minotaur), which basically makes him a Native Kalimdorian. The Tauren revere nature, living in wigwams near giant totem poles. As a Shaman (see below), he could also have chosen a troll (blue-skinned Jamaican-like monster) or an orc (green-skinned Klingon-like monster), so there must be something about the cow-man that appeals to his liberal guilt. Read the whole thing: victory or death! yes we can! (Waltermonkey; thanks Drew Coombs of Project Lore! Recompense of phat lewt, reagents, and pizza await thee.)...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=1578573baac1ac7ab7deda86b74b4daeamp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=1578573baac1ac7ab7deda86b74b4daeamp;p=1" border="0" //a

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Football: Restless Fabio Capello looks beyond year of progress

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/50499?ns=guardianpageName=Sport%3A+Restless+Capello+looks+beyond+year+of+progressch=Sportc3=The+Guardianc4=England+football+team%2CFabio+Capello%2CFootball%2CSportc5=Football+World+Cup%2CNot+commercially+usefulc6=Kevin+McCarrac7=2008_11_21c8=1121572c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sportc12=blogc13=c14=Sportblogh2=GU%2FSport%2Fblog%2FSportblog" width="1" height="1" //divpFabio Capello has the restlessness of all great managers. Though the final match of his first year in charge of England brought a 2-1 win over Germany in Berlin, he was more inclined to dwell on progress yet to be made. Results, however gratifying, evaporate in an instant for people like him./ppA quarter of an hour after the 4-1 triumph over Croatia in Zagreb the Italian had seemed to be discussing the match purely out of politeness. Capello is not so much a lugubrious character as a manager who needs far more than potent results in preliminary skirmishes or friendlies. He will be judged by the 2010 finals in South Africa, where England's participation looks certain. The standards in the World Cup must be higher and the punishments for falling short more severe. "We have reached one level," he said after victory in Berlin. "The last percent is not easy."/ppAll the same, on the flight home Capello went down the aisle to shake hands with every player and each member of his staff. It takes a lot to earn such an expression of gratitude from him. Much has been done and he wanted to recognise the level of commitment from all those who are part of the project. There is no giddiness in his nature and, in any case, he has chastening memories. "It's a dream," he said when asked if the current line-up could be genuine challengers for the World Cup./pp"I remember when I played here in Germany [at the 1974 finals] and we came as one of the best three teams in the world. After the first [group] phase we were out." Capello himself was in midfield and scored when Poland won 2-1 to eliminate Italy. /pp"It depends on the form of the players, the style, whether they are fresh," the manager remarked of the prospects should they reach South Africa. The whole topic can only strike Capello as intolerably premature. After all, an appreciation of the task before him lingers in his mind./pp"After we played against Switzerland I understood that the work would be very, very hard," he said. "It would be a big job." /ppThe friendly at Wembley yielded a 2-1 victory but his new charges were disjointed. Though Jermaine Jenas scored the first goal of Capello's tenure then, he was not in the party for Berlin. When replacement midfielders had to be summoned, Jimmy Bullard and Scott Parker were preferred./ppDavid Bentley, who started against Switzerland, is another currently excluded and Peter Crouch is marginalised even when other strikers are missing. Every manager speaks of competition for places but seldom can the level of complacency have been as low as it is now for England. Germany were outclassed by what was virtually a shadow line-up./ppThere was no feeling that a random assortment had been put on to the pitch and few spared a thought for all the absentees. That reflects on the accomplishment of someone like Michael Carrick, who complemented Gareth Barry so well, but also on Capello's schooling of all his players./ppWhen the Italian took over from Steve McClaren he made the usual diagnosis: "Technically the English players are good but only in training or the Premier League, not with the national team." Capello differs from most of his predecessors in that he addressed the problem effectively./ppThere was cohesion even when understudies were in the majority on Wednesday. Emphasis is put on positioning and concentration. "This is very important," said Capello, "because the English players are very [good] and we needed this movement with the ball and without the ball, when you have to defend and when you have to attack. This is very important work that the coaches have done."/ppSpecific attributes have been grafted on to the team. Speed is critical and, with the teenager Theo Walcott injured, Capello employed the unsettling pace of Gabriel Agbonlahor. The 22-year-old caused constant unease in a lumbering Germany defence./ppThe manager may be no idealist but it is practical to let England attack. While prizing possession, Capello also appreciates that the natural aggression of the Premier League has to be tapped. In his 10 England matches the side have scored 25 goals. A dozen players have notched up 24 of them, with the other an own-goal./ppThe occasion on which England could not find the net was the 1-0 defeat in Paris, Capello's single defeat. Eight of those other nine fixtures have been won. Of course there is still plenty to concern him. David James is the one person to start each of the matches and it would be reassuring if a real rival revealed himself./ppCapello, too, could ponder the fact that the England goals in Germany, from Matthew Upson and John Terry, arose from set pieces. The side ought also to have capitalised on their domination in open play. There will still have to be reflection on the most appropriate system to ensure that happens./ppIn the truly taxing games England could adopt the 4-2-3-1 structure. Walcott, Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard might comprise the secondary strikers. While Emile Heskey has shown how well he can serve as a target man, the side may also wish at times for a swift predator./ppAgbonlahor could develop into just such a figure but it would also be intriguing to discover how Capello might react if Michael Owen were to maintain fitness and form. "The door is open for all the players," said the manager. "I select the players who at this moment are in the best physical condition. They play very well for this reason - when you play international you have to stay 100 %; it is impossible to play international games 60%."/ppA gruelling test awaits anyone enlisting in Capello's cause but the first year of his campaign suggests there could one day be glory to grasp./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/england"England/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/fabio-capello"Fabio Capello/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Sportcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227257662654112108581338183"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Sportcountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227257662654112108581338183" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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Brazil: Attempts to censor a documentary about censorship

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- 1 days and 22 hours ago

London based Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Florêncio had a surprise on September 22, when his film Gagged in Brazil was taken off the Current TV networks. The documentary, “an investigation into the seemingly increasingly curtailed press in Brazil”, depicts freedom of press and the relationship between media and politics, looking closely at the involvement of Aécio Neves, the powerful governor of the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation, Minas Gerais. It explores the way that the local media offers only favorable news about the Brazilian Social Democracy Party run government, and the lack of journalistic investigation or debate about the errors of the same administration. A day after, his former commissioning editor on Current TV contacted him to explain the reasons [pt]:

Segundo ela, na semana anterior, os executivos seniors do canal nos EUA receberam cartas com severas consideraçÃµes e críticas sérias em relaçÃ£o ao filme. As cartas foram enviadas pelo PSDB de Minas Gerais. O PSDB afirmava que meu filme tinha caráter político-partidário, que nÃ£o representava a realidade do acontecido no estado e questionava minha conduta ética na produçÃ£o do filme. Junto as cartas foram enviadas também cópias da versÃ£o em inglês do vídeo produzido pelo PSDB e postado no YouTube.

According to her, in the previous week, the channel's seniors executives in the U.S. received letters containing severe criticism and serious considerations regarding the film. These letters were sent by the Minas Gerais' PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). PSDB stated that my film had a political-party character and it did not represent the reality of the situation in the state, and they challenged my ethical conduct in the production of the film. Alongside the letters, they also sent copies of the English version of the video produced by PSDB and posted on YouTube.

Many bloggers, such asÂ Paulo Fehlauer from Na Rua (screenshot above) had uploaded the video and for over a month exhibited an error message. Meanwhile, Current TV launched a month long investigation into the allegations and into Florêncio's journalism procedures, resulting in Gagged in Brazil being put back online. André Deak [pt], who had interviewed Florêncio [pt] for his blog earlier this year, brings the news as a victory for freedom of press:

Em alguns lugares (especialmente na rede), parece que o jornalismo ainda é possível.

In some places (especially on the net), it seems that journalism is still viable.

Released on the Current TV in UK on May 27, 2008, and in the US a week before, Gagged in Brazil had a Portuguese subtitled version uploaded on YouTube, triggering a huge reaction: its link made the rounds on e-mails, networking websites and the video achieved over 2,000 hits on Google, over 100,000 views on YouTube, not to mention the 6,000 hits on the Current TV version, in English.

Commenting on the film at the time of its release, Catatau [pt] says:

Salta aos olhos o enquadramento jornalístico de determinadas figuras políticas, como Aécio Neves e Lula. Enquanto para determinados políticos a linha editorial é branda, para outros a cobertura é implacável. Como se a imprensa escolhesse o rigor ou a parcialidade a partir de um jogo que foge aos olhos do espectador.

The journalistic framework for certain political figures, such as Aecio Neves and Lula, stands up. While for some politicians the editorial line is bland, for others the coverage is merciless. It is as if the media chose between accuracy or bias in a game that is far away from the eyes of the spectator.

Soon after, Gagged in Brazil - The Other Side, the video response below, was posted on YouTube by the youth group at PSDB - and other six followed. The filmmaker has been accused of partisanship, data manipulation and non observation of journalistic principles. It also suggests that the documentary did not deserve that much attention because the filmmaker was just an expatriate Brazilian from Minas, not a reputed British journalist.

Freedom of press - an old issue

Gagged in Brazil was inspired by Liberdade, Essa Palavra (“Freedom, That Word”), a 2006 video report by then journalism student Marcelo Baêta, shot for his graduation dissertation. It linked the firing of five journalist in 2002 and 2003 to stories they wrote/broadcast that were critical of Aécio Neves. As Neves gets ready to run as presidential candidate in 2010, “the issue of press manipulation continues to unfold in Brazil”, discovers Elizabeth Tuttle during an interview with Marcelo Baêta for the Columbia Journalism Review. What's the relevance of his documentary now?

First, Neves is one of the main presidential hopefuls for the 2010 elections. Second, the international repercussions of my video-documentary are still reverberating. This past May, it was heavily featured on the Current TV documentary “Gagged in Brazil,” which has since been viewed on YouTube 50,000 times. In June, the governor’s PR department posted yet another video response, this time to the Current TV's video.

In a recent comment on the article above, reader Diógenes Pinto Carvalhaes claims that Columbia Journalism School should not have published such an interview without “showing ‘the other side' of this controversial subject”:

I thought this subject was buried in the past, but it returns again like a ghost. Why is it coming back? For the same reason that it has appeared in 2006… At that moment, the alleged censorship in Minas Gerais was a leitmotiv in the opposition campaign, when Aécio Neves was running for a second term. Macelo Baêta’s video was a precious item of propaganda against Aécio Neves and largely scattered by anonymous spams in the internet. Now, Aécio Neves is one of the names most seriously considered for nomination in the next Brazilian presidential campaign.

However, the case of media censorship in Minas Gerais is far from a buried issue. In the middle of the local election last September, the opposing news website â€˜Novo Jornal' was taken down by Brazil's Public Ministry (state level prosecutors) on charges of anonymity, as reported by Global Voices. And not even blogs escape from politicians' attempts to gag those who try to have a voice on their own. Only last month, political scientist Fernando Massote [pt] was under threat of legal action by a local politician for replicating unfavorable news on his blog:

Informo que estou respondendo a interpelaçÃ£o judicial interposta pelo Sr. Marcio Lacerda. O candidato a prefeitura de BH me intima a confirmar conteúdos publicados no meu blogÂ www.massote.pro.br e me ameaça de processo por difamaçÃ£o, calúnia e injuria. Sendo assim, confirmo a autoria de todos os textos definitivos que foram postados e permaneceram no meu blog, da data em que foram publicados até hoje. Estes textos sÃ£o muito conhecidos pela alta freqüência de visitantes à minha publicaçÃ£o eletrônica. A difusÃ£o do meu blog, como todos sabem, é uma conseqüência entre outros fatores, da grande crise da imprensa em Minas Gerais, causada também pela censura de que é vitima e que tem sido amplamente denunciada.

Please be aware that I have been subject to legal procedure by Mr. Marcio Lacerda. The Belo Horizonte's mayor candidate intimated me to confirm the content published on my blog www.massote.pro.br and threatened legal action against me for defamation, libel and injury. Thus, I confirm the authorship of all final texts that have been posted and remain on my blog, from the date on which they were published up to now. These texts are well known because of my electronic publication's big pool of visitors. As everyone knows, the popularity of my blog is a consequence, among other factors, of the great crisis faced by Minas Gerais' press, which is also caused by the censorship that falls on them and which has been widely denounced.

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Fresh violence feared after Ortega accused of vote rigging

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divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/13490?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+Fresh+violence+feared+after+Ortega+accused+of+vote+riggingch=World+newsc3=guardian.co.ukc4=World+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Rory+Carrollc7=2008_11_20c8=1121399c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=c13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2F" width="1" height="1" //divpNicaragua hovered on the brink of fresh clashes tonight after disputed election results triggered a week of violent chaos. Supporters of the Sandinista government patrolled the capital, Managua, with rocks and clubs to deter the opposition from mobilising in the streets./ppOpposition leaders accused the country's president, Daniel Ortega, of rigging November 9 local elections in favour of Sandinista candidates and reviving authoritarianism in the impoverished central American nation./ppSandinista supporters armed with machetes, rocks and home-made mortars snuffed out opposition protests earlier this week, leaving dozens injured. For much of the trouble police were notably absent./ppA tense calm descended on the capital when the opposition withdrew from the fray and vowed to challenge the results in the national assembly, setting the scene for weeks of political wrangling and fears of renewed flare-ups. /ppMany shops in Managua remained boarded up today./ppA spokesman for Ortega, who has remained hidden from view during the crisis, accused opponents of refusing to recognise a legitimate government victory and trying to destabilise its pro-poor, leftist programme./ppAccording to preliminary results the Sandinistas won 106 of 146 municipalities, including the big prize, Managua. It was Ortega's first electoral test since reclaiming power in November 2006. /ppThe opposition leader, Eduardo Montealegre, who narrowly lost to Ortega in the presidential election two years ago, failed this time in his attempt to become the mayor of the capital. He won 46% against the Sandinista, Alexis Argüello, a former boxing world champion, who gained 51%./ppMontealegre, a Harvard-educated economist who was supported by the Catholic church and business leaders, claimed widespread fraud had robbed him of victory. "This fight isn't about the Managua mayoralty. It's more fundamental," he told the New York Times. "It's about dictatorship versus democracy." /ppSimilar accusations were made about the second city of Leon, where the Sandinista candidate was declared the winner despite ballots being found in a municipal dump. /ppGovernment officials did not return calls seeking comment./ppThe electoral tribunal, which is perceived to be pro-government, has agreed to recount some of the votes and is expected to give final results early next month. Foreign observers were not permitted to monitor the poll, nor will they be allowed monitor the recount./ppSandinista supporters have stayed on the streets to demand official recognition of their "triumphant victory"./ppSince returning to power Ortega, a darling of the international left when battling US-backed Contra rebels, has lost the support of numerous high-profile intellectuals and artists./pdiv class="guRssAdvert"a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227201977884112017282542753"img src="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/image.ng/richmedia=yessite=Newscountry=(none)spacedesc=rsssystem=rsstransactionID=1227201977884112017282542753" border="0" //a/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a

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