The Government of Russia donated 348.5 metric tons of flour to Nicaragua, which will be allocated to the “School Lunch 2023” program, the Nicaraguan Executive reported this Friday.
“This load of 348.5 metric tons of wheat flour is our contribution to the School Lunch Program applied by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education, and in this way we also contribute to the food security of the Government of Nicaragua,” said the ambassador of Russian in Nicaragua, Alexander Khokholikov, during the handover.
The Nicaraguan Ministry of Education highlighted that Russian flour will be used to feed 170,900 students in schools in the North Caribbean Autonomous Region (RACN), one of the poorest and most isolated in Nicaragua.
For its part, the World Food Program (WFP) estimated the donation of Russian wheat at $668,000, to which was added $2 million in cooking oil.
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Russia, which last January announced the increase in its cooperation with Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, is an important supplier of wheat for the Central American country.
Diplomatic relations between Nicaragua and Russia have been close each time the former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega has served as president, first between 1979 and 1990, and later from 2007 to date.
Russia was one of the countries that accepted the legitimacy of the re-election of Ortega and his wife Murillo as vice president, last November, with seven opposition presidential hopefuls under arrest and two others in exile.
Ortega has shown his support for the “new multipolar world order”, promoted by Russia and China, and whose objective is to end the global leadership of the United States and the West.
In the last 15 years, Russia has cooperated with Nicaragua with the donation or sale of military equipment, vaccines, buses, wheat, flour, automobiles, among others.
