The administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex), appointed Cora Gonzalez Detournielle as the new “counselor minister with consular functions” of Nicaragua before the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Through ministerial agreement 22-2023, published in The Gazette This Friday, June 23, Foreign Minister Denis Moncada formalized the appointment of González Detournielle to head the Nicaraguan embassy in the Islamic country.
The appointment of the Ortega official comes almost a month after the regime removed the former leader of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN) as ambassador of Managua in Iran, Isaac Lenin Bravo Jaenwho remained in that position for more than three years.
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The Ortega diplomat held the position in the Islamic country since January 9, 2020, as stated in Presidential Agreement 02-2020.
Regime “remove and put” ambassadors at will
Ortega and Murillo maintain a constant movement in the foreign service. They appoint and remove ambassadors almost every week. Many representatives last a very short time in office.
For a former Nicaraguan diplomat who asked to keep his identity confidential, in Nicaragua the Foreign Ministry, as the governing body of diplomacy, has been stripped of all authority by the dictators, who manage the diplomatic corps at will.
“Currently there is neither a Foreign Ministry nor a chancellor in Nicaragua, basically everything works from El Carmen,” criticizes the former diplomat, referring to the little or no authority that Foreign Minister Denis Moncada has, who on official trips is overshadowed and subordinated to his son of dictators, Laureano Ortega.
He explains that some time ago, dictators only cared about controlling some embassies, the ones of greatest interest to them, but “Every day all diplomatic activity is being centralized from El Carmen. There are no longer diplomats, but operators of the regime », he stressed.
