Daniel Ortega’s regime removed its ambassador to China, José Gómez, just a month after his appointment and appointed the specialist in Tourism Development, Ian Coronel Kinloch. His partner on the Asian continent gave her acceptance and approval to the new representative of Nicaragua, according to Vice President Rosario Murillo.
“In the next few days, he will travel to assume the responsibility of representing our people, families and our government before that brother country, before that brother people that we admire so much. Our thanks also to Ambassador Chen Xi who presented credentials in our Nicaragua in recent days », Murillo referred this Tuesday in his communication to official media.
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The new representative expressed his gratitude to the Chinese ambassador, “Thank you very much to the government, to the people of the People’s Republic of China and we know that comrade Ian Coronel will represent us with that commitment, that knowledge, that enthusiasm and that excellent will that we have always known,” he said.
The new Nicaraguan ambassador to the People’s Republic of China is the brother of AMelia Colonel Kinloch, Minister of the Interioran entity from which the dispossession of hundreds of NGOs in Nicaragua continues.
The dictatorship had appointed Orlando José Gómez Zamora as Chinese ambassador on May 20 after being removed from his post in Venezuela. Gómez has been characterized as a defender of Daniel Ortega, which has earned him various diplomatic posts in recent years.
Gómez held his position in Venezuela for only two months, on March 21 he presented the copies of style before the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Félix Plasencia, who accredited him as Nicaraguan ambassador to that nation.
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The current representative in China was Secretary General of the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (Intur) in the administration of former President Enrique Bolaños, to later hold positions in the private company and become one of the officials of the regime.
The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship maintains close relations with China after breaking relations with Taiwan in December 2021 and expropriating its assets in Managua, an action that China described as “an act of justice” by Nicaragua.