Word: alemán
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...engine room of the national rumor mill - ? Managua's landmark Imperial Barbershop. Since this modest three-chair barbershop opened its doors 35 years ago, Rodriguez and Larios have seated, aproned and lathered some of Nicaragua's most important politicians, bankers and powerbrokers. Right-wing former president Arnoldo Alem?n and ex-communist guerrilla leader Henry "Modesto" Ruiz are both on the client list. His Eminence, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, the country's top religious authority, has been getting the same haircut here for 30 years. Managua's Sandinista Mayor, Nicho Marenco, comes in for a trim every month...
...Unless served a summons, however, Larios and Rodriguez prefer to respect barber-client privilege, especially with their bigger clients - the ones who have outgrown the chair, so to speak. Arnoldo Alem?n, the portly former president convicted on embezzlement charges, now sends a car and driver to fetch Rodr?guez to do a home haircut, for which the barber charges double, or $9. Miguel Obando y Bravo, who used to come into the shop when he was just Archbishop of Managua, started sending the car after the Pope named him cardinal...
...Alem?n, despite his millions, comes from a humble background. And he has nothing but disdain for the right-wing reform efforts of Liberal dissident Eduardo Montealegre, a Harvard-educated, U.S.-backed former banker who he refers...
...When you let the cat loose it eats the rats, and this cat is going to travel all over the country," Alem?n said. Ortega must be silently nodding in approval as he watches his opposition claw at each other - the same situation that helped him into the presidency last year...
...Alem?n warns Ortega, once he disposes of Montealegre he will be setting his sights on the presidency, which could lead to a rematch of the 1996 election when Alem?n beat Ortega. "Don't get too happy in power. There's no debt that goes unpaid and no soup that doesn't get cold. We will return to power...