On June 16, the deputy dictator of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, emphatically announced the signing of new cooperation agreements with Russia. With this, the tray of agreements signed by the Government of Nicaragua grows, since they have also just announced “important understandings” with Iran and the “early harvest agreement” with China was already there, but none of this has a date for compliance.
In his daily address through his government propaganda media, Murillo announced that his son, Laureano Ortega, is back in Russia, his third trip in less than three months, and that he signed “important agreements” with the Vladimir administration. Putin. The presidential advisor on investment issues this time was accompanied by his brother, Juan Carlos, to whom his parents gave him the position and salary of “media director of citizen power.”
«We met with the mixed commission of the Russian Federation-Nicaragua, we achieved important agreements and progress on wheat, wheat supply, everything that we are giving continuity to, the expansion of the Mechnikov Plant, the supply of buses for next year,” said Murillo.
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As in all the announced agreements, they only give brief references, but do not specify what it is about or when they will be fulfilled. The deputy dictator mentioned the expansion of the Mechnikov Plant, which was supposedly intended to produce millions of vaccines against the coronavirus and other diseases, but until now it is unknown what it has produced, therefore, it is not known what expansion Murillo is talking about.
The spokeswoman said that her government is proud of the “participation and the achievements and advances” of its relationship of scientific or technical cooperation with its brothers in Russia and China, but did not clarify what advances she is referring to, because of those The only thing known in two countries is the purchase of Russian and Chinese-made buses, which are being sold to Sandinista transport cooperatives, in addition to the donation of wheat and urea, which the State then sells to bakers and producers.
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The political analyst in exile Enrique Sáenz has described the agreements of the Ortega regime with its political allies such as Russia, China, and now Iran, as “hats” of the dictator to shield and boast that he has cooperation with the main enemies of the United States. .
Visit of the President of Iran
With Iran, during the recent visit of the dictator of that Islamic State, Ebrahim Raisi, Ortega announced, on June 14, that he had achieved the signing of “important agreements”, but in reality what he announced was “three memoranda that cover the economic, commercial cooperation and scientific-technical exchange” between the two governments.
Ortega’s agreements with his Iranian counterpart are actually a memorandum of understanding related to the creation of the Mixed Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and Commercial Cooperation and Scientific-Technical Exchange.
The other is an exchange between the Supreme Courts of Justice of Iran and Nicaragua, and the third agreement, according to Ortega, is a “minute of information exchange” to reach a supposed commercial agreement in the future. None of this has a specific date.
