So what do you do if you are the president of the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and you’re facing the worst drought since 1976? Why, you buy Russian fighter jets at $30 million a pop, and work out a secretive deal to trade private land and the patrimony of your citizens to a Chinese canal-building company, of course.
Such is the state of affairs in Nicaragua after seven years of Sandinista rule. Congratulatory pieces like this recent one published by Al Jazeera cannot whitewash the fact that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo rule the country …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
