The United States government has imposed sanctions on senior executives of a European charter flight company for leasing its planes to transport irregular migrants to Nicaragua so that they can then continue their journey to U.S. territory.
The State Department said it has taken “steps to impose visa restrictions on senior officials of a European charter airline for facilitating irregular migration to the United States through Nicaragua.”
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Although the announcement does not specify the name of the company or the number of people sanctioned, it does make clear that it has cancelled the visas of “senior officials” of the European company, which could include executives and owners.
The U.S. measures, which have been applied consistently to these types of companies, respond to the “growing trend of charter airlines to offer flights to Nicaragua designed primarily for irregular migrants,” details the official press release from the State Department published on the official website of that institution.
Dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, along with seven institutions of their administration, have committed crimes against humanity against indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant communities in the two autonomous regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, “in an increasing and systematic manner,” according to the most recent report by the United Nations (UN) Group of Experts on Human Rights (GHREN).
The report concludes that “since 2018, Nicaraguan government authorities and pro-government groups (paramilitaries and settlers) have committed violations and abuses of the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendant communities in the two autonomous regions of the Caribbean Coast in an increasing and systematic manner.”
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The investigation maintains that crimes against humanity committed in Nicaragua have targeted indigenous and Afro-descendant leaders, forest rangers, defenders and activists, as well as members of indigenous and Afro-descendant civil society organizations or those defending the rights of these populations, opponents or those perceived as such, highlighting “imprisonment, torture and persecution for political reasons.”
They add that the violations are also directed against “opponents or those perceived as such, including violations of the rights to freedom and physical integrity, not to be subjected to torture and ill-treatment, participation in public life, peaceful assembly and freedom of expression, opinion, association and movement, among others.”
The International Network for Human Rights-Europe (RIDHE) and the Miguel de Cervantes University of Santiago, Chile announced the opening of the 2025 Scholarship Program, aimed at Nicaraguan students residing in Chile who wish to continue their academic training in various areas of knowledge, both online and in person.
With these scholarships, the organizations seek to “contribute to the comprehensive development and social integration of young Nicaraguans in situations of forced mobility,” according to the available information.
The courses that can be studied online are: Social Work, Computer Engineering, Human Resources Engineering, Commercial Engineering, and Auditing. The courses that can be studied online in Chile are: Psychology, Political Science and Public Administration, and Law.
The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MEM), Estela María Martínez Cerrato, according to presidential agreement 163-2024, resigned from her position. The regime stated, in the document released this Wednesday, September 11, in La Gaceta, that the resignation was given “due to retirement procedures.”
Ortega’s Martínez Cerrato had held the position of vice minister since November 2021. She was placed in that position as part of the actions taken by the Ortega regime to overcome the impact of the sanctions imposed that year by the United States Department of the Treasury against several officials linked to his administration, including Minister Salvador Mansell Castrillo.
Now, after the alleged resignation of Martínez Cerrato, the position of deputy minister of the MEM will be occupied by Santiago Hernán Bermúdez Tapia, according to presidential agreement 164-2024, published in the same edition of La Gaceta.
