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Last December 11, Nicaragua learned that the Ortega regime has in its hands another great project of those that it usually announces and never begins. This time it is the Nuclear Medicine Center, "which is being developed with the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, ROSATOM", said the press release issued by the government.
As on other occasions, Laureano Ortega Murillo appeared at the head of a government delegation that was at the Federal Scientific Clinical Center of Medical Radiology and Oncology of the Russian Federal Medical Biological Agency, in the city of Ulyanovsk.
Laureano Ortega was also the special guest at a large-scale "Russian party" held in January 2016 to celebrate the inauguration of the Mechnikov vaccine plant in Managua, and on which more than 50 thousand dollars were spent. The plant that promised to supply vaccines to the entire region was a failure and is currently linked to a corruption case being heard in Moscow.
Laureano is involved in everything. Officially, he is a presidential investment advisor, but at the beginning of this month he took on new functions when he received a delegation from the Communist Party of China. The pro-government media presented them as a "special representative of the FSLN Secretary General", a position that has always been held by his father, Daniel Ortega.
While Laureano Ortega is touring Russia, this Thursday, La Gaceta, the Official Gazette, published four presidential agreements granting him "full powers" to act "in the name and on behalf of the government" in the signing of cooperation agreements in that country.
Laureano Facundo Ortega Murillo, 41 years old, is the sixth son of the marriage of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. Contrary to his father, who is careless in his dress, with shoes, jacket and baseball cap even in his own inauguration, Laureano is a catrín. He wears fine suits that hide a fully tattooed left arm, he wears Rolex watches worth more than 40 thousand dollars and when he studied in Costa Rica he drove a Porsche 911 race car, which can cost between 130 thousand and 250 thousand dollars.
He is the most public of Ortega and Murillo's children. The pro-regime media continually show him in family or government activities, which has led to believe that...