Orlando José Gómez Zamora is the diplomat of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo who will stand out as the first Nicaraguan ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, in this new stage after the reestablishment of relations between the two nations.
Gómez Zamora was removed from his position as ambassador to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and transferred to China, as established by presidential agreements 77-2022 and 86-2022 published in La Gaceta, Official State Gazette, on Friday, May 20.
He only spent two months in office as diplomatic representative to Venezuelafor which he was appointed by Daniel Ortega on March 24, 2022. So far, he has not announced who will assume this position.
The South American country is one of the key political allies of the Ortega regime in the hemisphere. The Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was even present at the self-proclamation ceremony of Ortega and Rosario Murillo as winners of the voting process on November 7, 2021, which was carried out without any political competition and under the shadow of repression and electoral fraud. .
Gómez Zamora is one of the diplomats with the most experience and loyalty to the regime since he came to power in 2007. The government desperately seeks to attract the attention of China as an economic ally, to the point of breaking with Taiwan, until then one of its main partners. political and financial. In addition, the regime confiscated the building that served as its embassy in Managua.
They also appoint an ambassador to Honduras: Sidhartha Marín
Another recent diplomatic move by the regime was the appointment of Sidhartha Francisco Marín Araúz, as ambassador to Honduras. His passage through the diplomatic corps of Ortega is characterized by his fleeting passage as ambassador to Cuba, position in which he was only 11 daysafter replacing the Nicaraguan nationalized Argentine journalist Luis Cabrera Gonzáles, who was the Nicaraguan representative on the Caribbean island for 14 years.
Marín Aráuz replaced the former advisory minister for policies and international affairs, Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker, who was dismissed by Ortega last March, after three months in office.
Marín Aráuz, who has been Nicaragua’s permanent representative to the UN and ambassador to Ecuador, arrives in Tegucigalpa at a time when Honduras and the Ortega regime are experiencing a rapprochement, with the arrival of Xiomara Castro to power.
On May 14, 2022, Honduras abstained in the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), when a resolution was passed condemning the occupation of its offices in Nicaragua and demanding that the Government of Daniel Ortega return it.
Pay attention to the data. Dramatic change in El Salvador that refrained from condemning the assault on the OAS headquarters by Ortega Murillo. Honduras also did it, although it is not surprising. There is a dark and dangerous dictatorial turn in Central America. #Nicaragua
– Arturo McFields Yescas (@ArturoMcfields) May 13, 2022
The abstentions of Honduras and El Salvador During this vote, it was viewed with “concern” by national political analysts, who warned of the risk of an “imitation of impunity” with which Ortega operates by these countries of the Northern Triangle of the region.
Another movement in the regime’s diplomatic corps was the appointment of Zoila Yanira Müller Goff as ambassador to Belgium. That position was held until last February by Irana Venerio Fernández, appointed Nicaraguan ambassador to the European Union.
