[Enrique] Bolanos said on Thursday that the Organization of American States was alarmed by the further deterioration in Nicaragua’s political crisis and would send a mediation mission.
Earlier this month, a senior US official warned that Nicaragua would face isolation if opposition forces deposed the president. Mr Bolanos took office in 2002 after a landslide victory over Sandinista leader and former President Daniel Ortega.
But members of his own Liberal Party turned against him - and joined forces with the Sandinistas - after his government decided to prosecute former President Arnoldo Aleman for corruption.
