The United States Undersecretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, Brian Nichols, in statements made during his participation in the Summit of the Americas, assured that “tough sanctions are coming” against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo. In addition, he referred that “the lack of democracy and human rights violations” prevented the presence of Nicaragua in the international meeting.
“In Nicaragua there are still around 40 important politicians imprisoned for trying to participate in the elections that ended up being a complete farce. Also in Venezuela there is a lack of freedom, there are political prisoners, and that is something that goes against the fundamental documents of the Summit of the Americas process. That was our concern,” said the American diplomat.
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“We understand that there are other opinions and we spent a lot of time talking to others thinking, trying to move forward on those issues, but in the end that was what weighed the most,” Nichols added to reporters covering the start of the Forum of the Americas in Los Angeles. , Calif.
Nichols announced that harsh sanctions are coming for the regime, “we expect profound changes in its way of acting and if we are not going to take measures to express our disagreement with the political repression that exists in Nicaragua at this time,” said the Nicaraguan administration official Joe Biden.
He affirms that what most worries the United States at the moment is “the lack of democracy and the violations of human rights. Human rights are something very important for our country and for our president (Biden). We look forward to seeing President López Obrador on a visit. For the moment, we are going to be focused on the presence of the vast majority of countries at the level of the president and Mexico at the level of the chancellor,” said Nichols.
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López Obrador affirmed this June 6 that he will not attend the Summit in “solidarity” with the countries of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, which were not invited to the activity because he considers that they “lack democracy.” The president of the Aztec country stated this morning that “I can now inform the people of Mexico that I am not going to attend the Summit, he is representing me and the government, (Foreign Minister) Marcelo Ebrard, and I am not going to the Summit because all the countries of America are invited».
For her part, the deputy president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, stated that the exclusion of the Managua regime from the Summit of the Americas will not have any repercussions because Ortega “is not interested in what the United States decides beyond what affects the family patrimony of the corporation that is the regime and that keeps Nicaragua and its economy captured.”
