Dictator Daniel Ortega once again granted full powers to his son and advisor on investments, trade and cooperation, Laureano “El Chiqüin” Ortega Murillo, this time so that, on behalf of the regime, he could sign the beginning of what they project as an agreement on trade and cooperation with the satellite regime of Russia in the Republic of Belarus, and also granted full powers to the director of Customs of Nicaragua to sign another customs cooperation agreement with that country.
By presidential agreement 111-2024, published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette, number 132, this Monday, July 22, the tyrant grants “full powers” to Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo “as presidential advisor for the promotion of investments, trade and international cooperation so that, acting on behalf and representing the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua, he signs the “road map for the development of economic and commercial cooperation between the Republic of Nicaragua and the Republic of Belarus.”
Laureano “El Chigüin” Ortega, who is seen as first in line to the Sandinista dynasty after his mother Rosario Murillo, has previously been given several “full powers” to represent his father in signing trade agreements with Russia and China.
The son-advisor from his position, who does not have the rank of minister, has replaced all the ministers of State in the relations of the dictatorship with Russia, China and now with Belarus, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself, Denis Moncada.
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The regime has not made public which sectors of the national economy would be included in the agreement they are seeking with Belarus. What was notable, however, was the nostalgia that Ortega felt for the “Belarus trucks,” which according to him “became popular” in Nicaragua during the 1980s, during the first period of the Sandinista dictatorship. These trucks are manufactured in that country that has been governed by the same dictator, the pro-Russian general Alexander Lukashenko, for 30 years.
Full powers also for the Director of Customs
Another person who received full powers from the regime to sign commitments, in this case in the area of customs cooperation, is Eddy Francisco Medrano Soto, who, through Presidential Agreement 110-024, published in the same Official Gazette, was empowered by the dictatorship to, as general director of the General Directorate of Customs Services, acting in the name and representation of Nicaragua, sign an agreement of “cooperation and mutual assistance in customs matters,” also with Belarus.
Both agreements, issued by the dictator, specify that the certification of the same is sufficient to “accredit the faculty” of both El Chigüin Ortega and Medrano Soto to “act on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua” by signing the respective commitments.
The two presidential orders will come into force on the date of publication in the Official Gazette, i.e., from this Monday.
In February of this year, the regime announced that they had achieved the signing of a cooperation and trade agreement with that country. On that occasion, El Chigüin Ortega said that with his “brothers from Belarus” they had worked to achieve agreements on “supply programs, machinery, technology and manufacturing from Belarus for Nicaragua and on plans for the formation and installation of joint companies, which can offer these products to the Nicaraguan and Central American markets.”
