The Rise of Russia - the Turning Point for Russian Foreign Policy: Russia's Military Interventions in Ukraine and Syria, Interference With the U.S. Presidential Elections, Engageme by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Diplomacy, Political Science, World, Russian & Former Soviet Union
ISBN: 9788026879626
Google: C-5CDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2017-08-26T13:31:32+00:00

Guatemala.

Within Central America, Guatemala is an outlier as a Central American state which has maintained some economic and diplomatic ties with Russia despite a legacy of unsuccessful attempts by Marxist guerillas to overthrow its conservative government.45 Although Guatemala technically established relations with the Soviet Union in 1945, political and other engagement between the two countries remained limited during Guatemala’s 30-year long civil war from 1960 through 1990, in which Russia was seen to back the insurgents seeking to overthrow the Guatemalan government.46 Even after the peace accords of 1996, which put an end to the Guatemalan civil war, the country conducted diplomatic relations with Russia through Costa Rica until 2007, when Russia established an embassy in Guatemala City. In March 2010, Alvaro Colom became the first Guatemalan president to visit Russia.47 The trip, however, occurred near the end of his term, and Colom’s successor, General Otto Perez Molina, has not shown a similar interest in diplomatic engagement with the country.

With respect to economic interactions, Russian companies have had a small presence in Guatemala’s mining and petroleum sectors. In 2011, for example, the Russian firm Solway purchased the Fenix ferronickel mine near the town of El Estor.48 The resulting entity Compania Guatemalteca de Niquelhas subsequently invested $450 million dollars in the sector.49 In petroleum, in July 2013, the Russian-backed Panamanian company Zacapa was granted a concession by the Guatemalan Ministry of Energy and Mines to explore for gas and oil.50

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