Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista Front sought to capitalize on the recent fracturing of a rival party during municipal elections Sunday amid ongoing attempts to remove the country’s president from office. The elections in 152 municipalities across Nicaragua were the first since supporters of President Enrique Bolanos broke with the Liberal Constitutionalist Party to form the Alliance for the Republic. They were being watched as political barometer more than halfway through the president’s five-year term. Full Story