Dan Burton in Nicaragua scheming against Daniel Ortega

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U.S. congressman to meet with Nicaraguan presidential candidates
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/22/america/LA_GEN_Nicaragua_US_Elections.php

MANAGUA, Nicaragua A U.S. congressman was headed to Nicaragua on Friday to meet with two U.S.-backed presidential candidates running against Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.

Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana who chairs the House International Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, was to meet with Harvard-educated banker Eduardo Montealegre and Sandinista dissident Edmundo Jarquin during his two-day visit, U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Kristin Stewart said.

Montealegre's party, the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance, is a dissident branch of the conservative Constitutional Liberal Party of former President Arnoldo Aleman, who governed Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002.

Aleman turned against former party member and current President Enrique Bolanos after the president led an anti-corruption campaign that led to Aleman's 2003 conviction. Bolanos and others went on to form the Liberal Alliance.

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Burton's meeting was seen as a possible attempt to encourage Montealegre and Jarquin to form an alliance to defeat Ortega in the Nov. 5 election.

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