Russia is set to increase its military presence in Nicaragua after its parliamentary upper house, the Federation Council, ratified its cooperation agreement with the communist Ortega regime on Wednesday — a deal that Nicaraguan dissidents denounced turns their country into a “Russian military base.”

Over the past years, the communist regime led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has received a significant amount of support from Russia that has allowed the regime to expand and reinvigorate its brutally repressive apparatus and to silence dissent in the country — including the establishment of a…

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