The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo appointed Mohamed Mohamed Ferrara Lasthar as the new ambassador to Turkey as the new ambassador to Turkey, according to Presidential Agreement No. 41-2023, published in La Gaceta No. 65 of this Monday, April 17.
Mohamed Ferrera Lasthar, says the same presidential decree, is based in the State of Kuwait, and will assume the embassy in Turkey as “recurrent”.
Ferrara Lasthar is a Nicaraguan nationalized Libyan citizen who serves as adviser and presidential delegate for Africa, the Middle East and Arab Countries; and ambassador to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, the Tunisian Republic, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
To these diplomatic positions we should also add this new mission that the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship appointed him. The new ambassador was sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury on November 15, 2021 after the disputed presidential elections of that year.
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According to documents leaked by WikiLeaks, Ferrara Lashtar is the nephew of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi and was linked to his uncle’s intelligence services since the 1980s of the last century.
The then US ambassador in Managua, Paul Trivelli, wrote at least four dispatches on the case in 2007, when Ortega took office and appointed him secretary and private adviser for international affairs for Nicaragua, with the rank of ambassador.
The Libyan arrived in Nicaragua during the first Sandinista government (1979-1990) and, in addition to being from Ortega’s circle, he is a prominent businessman and was a substitute deputy for the Sandinistas before the Central American Parliament (Parlacen).
In the same edition of La Gaceta on April 17, prior to the appointment of Mahamed Lasthar, Ortega removed from office Tatiana Daniela García Silva, who until today held the position of ambassador to Turkey, who was acting as “recurring, with headquarters in the city of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany”, since March 13, 2020.
