Security & Strategic Review - July 2026

A Nicaraguan delegation headed up by Laureano Ortega Murillo, a son of authoritarian co-presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo and a presidential adviser on investment, paid a recent visit to Russia where various bilateral cooperation agreements were signed. The visit is the latest sign of burgeoning ties between Moscow and Managua, which, in the wake of Washington’s military incursion in Venezuela in January, and amid pressure on Nicaragua’s other key regional ally, Cuba, appears increasingly out on a limb.