Russia is flexing its muscles in Central America

Tuesday, March 24, 2015
By Paul Martin

JEREMY BENDER
BusinessInsider.com
MAR. 24, 2015

Russia has once again started to flex its muscles in a bid to rebuild its influence in the Central American state of Nicaragua, McClatchy DC reports.

Moscow may strike a possible arms deal with Nicaragua that would provide the Central American country with fighter jets.

Although details of the deal have not been revealed, there are rumors in local papers from both countries that suggest that Russia could provide MiG-29 fighter aircraft.

Nicaragua has said that it needs the fighters to help fight the drug trade. However, the US and neighboring states are concerned that the arms deal is a way for Russia to make its presence felt in a region close to the US in retribution for what Moscow perceives as Western meddling in Ukraine and the Baltics.

“One doesn’t combat drug trafficking with that kind of heavy military equipment for fighting wars,” Costa Rican Foreign Minister Manuel González said in late February.

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