says Dora Maria Tellez
Dora Maria Tellez, a former Sandinista guerrilla leader, warns that the Ortega regime is trying to convert the country into “a Russian platform in the arena of security and geopolitics.”
HAVANA TIMES – Legendary guerrilla leader, former Health Minister and noted historian Dora Maria Tellez – now an exiled dissident – accused the Nicaraguan government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo of planning to convert the country into a regional platform for Russian security and geopolitics.
Speaking on Sunday, March 3rd via an audio message to the media, Tellez declared: “Nicaragua at the hands of Ortega-Murillo is striving to become a platform for the Russians, in terms of security and geopolitics.” She made these remarks in the context of the recent official visit to Nicaragua of General Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Russian Security Council.
“What does Putin want? To be poking at the United States from Nicaragua, so he can resolve his problems,” which “have to do with the war in Ukraine, with his own borders,” Dora Maria Tellez stated. The academic and historian formed part of the first Sandinista government from 1979 – 1990, later going on to form a dissenting Sandinista Party, originally called the Sandinista Renewal Movement (MRS), and later United Democratic Renewal, or UNAMOS. She was arrested in 2021 and eve