It is clear that [the election authorities] have to undertake some practical steps in an urgent way to organize the way they work and make decisions to [register] a preponderance of the voters by mid-August.

We urge [the peacekeepers] to seize the initiative, respond to this wave of criminality and be more proactive to dissuade violence.

There'll be a will in the inter-American community to isolate Nicaragua politically and economically if there were this sort of power grab against the elected president of the country by elements of Nicaragua that are behaving very, very irresponsibly, that have put the personal interests of a couple of leaders ahead of the national interest.

We are going to undertake a statement redesign to make these matters more clear.

The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise.

It was informed by the Cajun tradition, waltzes and ballads and two steps.