The United States imposed visa restrictions on 93 Nicaraguan public officials because it considers them complicit in “undermining democracy” in the country with the Daniel Ortega regime, the State Department announced Monday.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, explained in a statement that the list of those sanctioned includes members of the Ministry of the Interior, the National Assembly, judges and prosecutors, but did not reveal their identities.
The Joe Biden Administration accuses these officials of “undermining democracy” after the “illegitimate elections” of November 2021 in which Ortega was re-elected.
In the statement, Blinken assured that the officials of the Ministry of the Interior and the sanctioned Nicaraguan deputies “have promoted repressive laws” against civil society organizations and a dozen universities.
In addition, he stated that “the judges and prosecutors aligned with the regime are complicit in the efforts of the Ortega and Murillo regime to undermine democracy,” and cited the convictions against opposition leaders and human rights defenders.
“The United States is deeply concerned about the unjust detentions of political prisoners by the Ortega-Murillo regime and the continued abuses against members of civil society,” he said.
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