Can 'Mafia Dictatorship' From Nicaragua Get Lukashenka's Money?

With whom the Belarusian ruler does business.

Relations between Belarus and Nicaragua have been developing actively in recent months. Salidarnasts tells us who Lukashenka's regime is working with. And we wonder if the "mafia dictatorship" will be able to get money from Minsk.

"Undoubtedly, our peoples and governments are brothers".

Let's briefly list the main events of active relations between Belarus and Nicaragua.

November 2022: The Nicaraguan delegation headed by the Minister of Transport visited Amkodor.

February 2023: Ambassadors of Belarus and Nicaragua to the Russian Federation held talks in Moscow.

May 2023: Aliaksandr Lukashenka met with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres. The latter sent the ruler of Belarus "a great greeting from Commander Daniel Ortega" (see details below). At the same time, Belarus signed an agreement with Nicaragua to provide export credits for the purchase of Belarusian equipment.

July 2023: Belarusian Foreign Minister Siarhei Aleinik visited Nicaragua, where he met with President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo Sambrana. The government officials signed an agreement on the abolition of visas. MTZ, MAZ and Amkodor signed contracts for the delivery of their machines.

October 20-23: The President of the National Assembly of Nicaragua, Arling Patricia Alonso Gomez, paid a visit to Minsk, where she said: "There is no doubt that our peoples and governments are brothers.

"Mafia dictatorship" in Nicaragua: the family controls power and businesses, the people live in poverty

Let's take a closer look at the leadership of Nicaragua, with which Minsk has decided to build bridges. When examining the biography of President Daniel Ortega, one can't help but wonder why he and Lukashenka are only now trying to be friends. The destinies of the two rulers have much in common. Consider this.

In 1979, Daniel Ortega led the masses to victory in the Sandinista revolution. He was president for the second half of the 1980s, but then spent a long time in opposition. Ortega returned to power in 2007 and has never relinquished it.

Like Lukashenka, he managed to abolish presidential term limits. The former revolutionary has become a classic dictator: political repression has been going on in the country for a long time.

In 2018, Nicaragua witnessed mass protests involving hundreds of thousands of people after the pension reform and tax hikes. The regime crushed the protests: hundreds died and tens of thousands were forced to leave the country.

In 2021, Nicaragua held a presidential 'election' after all of Ortega's main opponents were behind bars. In early 2023, more than 200 political prisoners were released and deported to the United States. After they left the country, the authorities began to deprive them of their citizenship and property. In some respects, Ortega has even surpassed Lukashenka. For example, in 2008 he recognised the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia at Russia's request. The politician is also known to have raped his adopted daughter. When she grew up, Zolamerica Narves Murillo told journalists the cruel truth.

His wife, Rosario Murillo, who is the country's vice-president, is also a match for the dictator. It is widely speculated that, given her husband's age, she has been carrying out repression in the country in recent years. Rosario Murillo is also known to be interested in the occult. Catholic priests call her a "witch".

This woman is full of energy. Judging by her speeches, she is also mentally unstable, cruel and violent.

The couple have turned Nicaragua into a family dictatorship: they have 8 children (6 common); many of them hold leading positions in power and business. State television, for example, is run by the eldest son, Rafael Antonio Ortega.

And Laureano Ortega, special representative and adviser to the president on international cooperation, met the head of the Belarusian foreign ministry during his visit to the country.

This really is a mafia dictatorship. There are two common signs of such a dictatorship. The first is the complete absence of institutions of power, when the state turns into a system of private power subordinated to a single group. In this case it is a family dictatorship. And the second sign is the unity of power and property.

The Belarusian authorities are willing to grant Nicaragua export credits, but will it pay Minsk back?

Today Nicaragua is in the midst of a deep economic crisis, with a significant part of the population living below the poverty line. Nicaragua is the second most impoverished country in the region after Haiti.

The Belarusian authorities have signed contracts with this country for the supply of equipment, with the possibility of export credits. Will they pay Minsk back? This is obviously a difficult question.

The Nicaraguan authorities probably came to Belarus because they are not well known here. Russia knows them a little better, because it is ready to give money in return for international support. For example, in 2020 the Russian Federation sent $10 million to Nicaragua and Cuba within the framework of the UN World Food Programme for the development of the school feeding system.

Two years ago, the Russian Federation donated 250 GAZ buses to Nicaragua on the condition that they buy 300 more. They did buy them, but not with their own money, of course, but with a loan from Roseximbank....

Let's see if the mafia family dictatorship from Central America will succeed in ripping off Lukashenka's regime.