The administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, in line with its diplomatic moves, appointed Sylvia Celina Miranda Paniagua as ambassador of Nicaragua to Belgium, as a concurrent; after the position had been empty since January 11, when the dictatorship decided to dismiss Zoila Müller Goff from the diplomatic mission in Brussels, who was in the European country for just eight months.
Through presidential agreement 38-2023 published this Thursday in the official gazette The Gazettethe regime appointed its official as “Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Nicaragua before the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium, as a concurrent, based in the city of Paris, France.”
Since 2014, the diplomat has held the position of Minister Counselor at the Embassy of the Central American country before the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in France.
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In August 2022, Paniagua was assigned to assume the designation as charge d’affaires in Greece, following the departure of Carlos Midence. In addition, in September of that same year, she took office as ambassador to the Republic of France and in October, Ortega appointed her as ambassador to the Government of Portugal, as a concurrent.
On the same day that Sylvia Miranda was appointed by the Ortega regime as Nicaragua’s representative in Belgium, the Nicaraguan administration carried out another movement of tokens and appointed Nicaragua’s new ambassador to Brazil Gadiel Osmani Arce Zepedawho had recently assumed the position of counselor minister at the Nicaraguan embassy in the South American country.
In the presidential agreement 39-2023, Ortega details that “this agreement takes effect from its publication” so that Arce Zepeda can exercise the position of extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Nicaragua in Brazil.
On March 16, Ortega resolved to dismiss Lorraine del Carmen Martinez of her appointment as ambassador of Managua before the government of Luiz Lula da Silva.
The former ambassador had been in that diplomatic position since July 10, 2013, according to publication 142-2013 of the official newspaper La Gaceta, which was left without effect.
