Left-wing governments in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia have all become allies of Iran in recent years, and other countries in Latin America have diplomatic ties with the Islamic republic.
Shannon said Iran wants to ease its international isolation by showing it is able to win friends in Latin America, which has been historically in the [...]

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Iran is establishing a Central American foothold in Nicaragua, to the alarm of some U.S. state department officials, it is being reported.
The San Antonio News-Express said Monday that Nicaragua, with the backing of its Venezuelan ally, has been forging a new partnership with Iran.
Part of that relationship comes in the form of a $350 [...]

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Nicaraguan Vice President Jaime Morales Carazo has termed as “odious” China’s requirement that Nicaragua sever ties with Taiwan first before it can establish formal diplomatic relations with Beijing.
In an interview with the Nicaraguan daily El Neuvo Diario on Wednesday, Morales described China’s high-handed attitude as an act of “yellow imperialism.”
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MEXICO CITY, May 19 (Itar-Tass) — Russia and Nicaragua “begin a new stage of relations striving to consolidate friendship and cooperation in all spheres,” Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Friday during a meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak who heads the Russian delegation at a regular round of Russian-Nicaraguan political consultations held [...]

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