Margaret Thompson, program director for the U.S. NationalRepublicanInstitute for International Affairs, for example, has recounted seeing opposition rallies broken up by club-wielding gangs.
The Center's analysis draws on numerous reports of unfair Sandinista campaign techniques documented by the U.S. State Department, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and the NationalRepublicanInstitute for International Affairs, and the Puebla Institute, among others.
The National Democratic Institute and the International RepublicanInstitute closed their Moscow offices last year after laws were passed cracking down on organisations which receive foreign funding.