‘He’s Still In Office, Having Appointed His Wife As Vice President’

The truth about the country that Belarusians will soon be able to visit without visas.

Reader Venijamin from Salihorsk wrote to the editors of the website Charter97.org:

— At the beginning of the new year 2024, I read about the “huge diplomatic success” of the local authorities: an intergovernmental agreement was signed between Belarus and Nicaragua on the mutual abolition of visas. It will take effect in just a month.

Out of curiosity, I asked my colleagues if they even knew where this state was located. They were sure it was in Africa.

Here I can praise myself, because I know more. Once upon a time, during Soviet times, I was a so-called “political informant” in my class: once a week I reviewed events in the world. So, Soviet newspapers wrote regularly about Nicaragua.

The fact is that in 1979, power there was seized by Marxists from the Sandinista National Liberation Front, led by Daniel Ortega, with whom the USSR sympathized and helped. The civil war began. It ended only in 1990 with free elections in which the democratic parties won.

Unfortunately, the democratic period did not last very long: in 2006, former dictator Daniel Ortega, thanks to his populism, managed to win another election and is still in office, having appointed his wife as vice president.

All elections since then have been accompanied by numerous violations. Pro-democracy activists are persecuted, many are expelled from the country and stripped of their citizenship. US and EU sanctions have been imposed against the regime. But Ortega has complete mutual understanding with Putin: he even recognized Abkhazia. Doesn't this remind you of anything or anyone?

In ancient calm times, the most obsessed and wealthy travelers from Belarus flew to Central America, Cuba and Mexico. Will they now covet the Caribbean beaches of Nicaragua, which are 10 thousand kilometers away, since getting into the neighboring Poland is a problem today?

Maybe tours to exotic Nicaragua will be awarded to “excellent students” of the current regime? It will be a good opportunity to exchange experiences with representatives of the brotherly regime on how to falsify elections and circumvent sanctions...

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