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Nicaragua Offers a “Platform” for Iran in Central America

During the visit this past week Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, promises and an intense anti-US rhetoric predominated.

“Before the revolutionary triumph, the cobbler shoemaker was a poor trade. The present shows the opposite”.

The Ortega-Murillo regime was glaringly absent from the public hearing held on February 2nd at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

“It’s hard to go back,” said Benjamin Ziff, the US chargé d’affaires at the Havana embassy. “The world has changed since Obama’s time.”

They say that the University of Havana Law School has become a “den of police, opportunists and mediocrity”.

Iran shares with Nicaragua blanket support for Russia and Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine as well as both having fierce police states.

The neighborhood continues to be on the fringe, even though Havana has inevitably spilled far beyond it over the last century and a half.

Former prosecutors and judicial workers admit that the actions of Ortega’s police, judges and prosecutors are “unconstitutional” & “immoral.”

If he didn’t make it, Nerey had already thought about staying in a Central American country to work. Going back to Cuba was never an option…

“The IMF isn’t interested in democracy, only in the macroeconomic fundamentals, even if these are obtained at the cost of essentials…”