ALBERTO JOSE GUEVARA OBREGON

摘要

Nicaragua's finance minister tells The Banker how government efforts to attract foreign direct investment to the relatively untapped energy sector are seen as crucial if the region is finally to shake itself out of poverty.rnNicaragua does not have the best reputation on the global markets. President Daniel Ortega has been trying to circumnavigate the country's law and seek re-election at the end of his term in 2011, while Iran's $1.5m investment to build a hospital in the country - which some see not as a humanitarian gesture but a politically charged move - and close ties with Venezuela have made observers nervous about the region's rule of law and political stability.