Word: endara
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department contradicted a Panamanian government assessment that, based on returns from four of 40 election districts, Noriega's handpicked presidential candidate, Carlos Duque, was leading opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by 80,646 votes...
...vowed to depose him. But General Manuel Antonio Noriega still runs the country, and even though he will not be standing for election on May 7, he looms as the power behind the throne. Polls show that Noriega's handpicked candidate for President, Carlos Duque, trails opposition candidate Guillermo Endara by more than 2 to 1. Yet U.S. officials and opposition leaders are convinced Duque will steal the election. They charge that evidence of government chicanery already abounds: manipulation of voter rolls to keep opponents from the polls, coercion of public employees to vote the government ticket, fraudulent registration practices...