100 Nicaraguan officials banned from entering US

Washington, United States.- USA Forbidden Visas to more than 100 municipal officials this Friday Nicaraguans For “his role” in Govt of the President Daniel OrtegaState Department Report.

Washington believes Fraudulent Condemned him for Ortega’s re-election in 2021 and a wave of arrests against opponents, many of whom are still in prison, forced into exile and stripped of their nationality.

In addition, Ortega and his wife and the government of Vice President Rosario Murillo have banned thousands of NGOs and recently intensified repression of the Catholic Church.

In a statement, the State Department reported that it had “imposed visa restrictions on more than 100 Nicaraguan municipal officials for their roles in the Ortega-Murillo government.”

President Joe Biden’s government has accused Managua of “continuing to engage in a repressive campaign that silences civil society and unjustly detains people brave enough to exercise their fundamental freedoms.”

Nicaragua is under US sanctions for its suppression of the 2018 protests against Ortega, in power since 2007 and successively re-elected in elections questioned by the international community.

In the statement, the United States pledged to continue working internationally to hold accountable “those who threaten democracy” in the Central American country.