Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Nicaragua this Wednesday, April 19, the date on which Nicaraguans commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Civic Rebellion of April 2018. The visit is part of a trip by the Moscow official to several countries allied with Russia.
The Minister of Relations of the Russian Federation will hold meetings at the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry where the participation of the dictator Daniel Ortega, Rosario Murillo and officials of the Nicaraguan regime are expected.
Lavrov is on a tour that will take him from April 17 to 21 to countries such as Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba “to promote mutually beneficial cooperation in the political, commercial, economic, educational, humanitarian, cultural and other fields,” they say. Cuban media.
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According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, these meetings will focus the negotiations on strengthening the international legal foundations of the modern world, whose basic framework is the United Nations Charter.
Lavrov’s visit to Nicaragua comes 14 months after Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, which has been backed by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega y Rosario, one of the few Latin American governments that have expressed their strong support for the president. Russian Vladimir Putin.
The Nicaraguan dictatorship has also received the support of the Russian Federation in international forums that have condemned the sociopolitical crisis in the Central American country.
The sociopolitical crisis in Nicaragua has lasted for five years since 2018, it has left 355 people murdered; more than 2 thousand injuries; 2,090 political prisoners and 322 people released and exiled, the same from whom the Nicaraguan nationality was taken away.
