The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury designated sanctions against three judges of the Nicaraguan Judiciary. Nadia Camila Tardencilla, Ernesto Rodríguez and Octavio Rothschuh are the new Ortega officials who join the blacklist of the North American country for violating the human rights of Nicaraguans.
Rodríguez is a presiding magistrate of the Managua Court of Appeals (TAM). On February 15 of this year, Rodríguez announced the regime’s decision to strip 94 Nicaraguan citizens of their nationality, declaring them traitors to the homeland.
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“The denationalized individuals were open critics of the Ortega regime and included prominent journalists, human rights defenders, and members of the clergy,” the US entity notes.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, declared that the sanctions issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury, against three officials of the Judicial Branch was because they are “directly responsible » the stripping of the Nicaraguan nationality to more than 300 opponents.
The head of North American diplomacy assured that his country is taking more measures to hold the perpetrators accountable for the repressive actions of the Nicaraguan regime against its people.
“The United States is imposing sanctions on Nicaraguan judges who played a role in stripping more than 300 Nicaraguans of their citizenship, leaving many of these people stateless,” Blinken said in a public statement released by the State Department.
A group of ex-residents and political exiles published, on their different social networks, a statement in the framework of the fifth anniversary of the civic rebellion on April 19, 2018.
The statement, without specific signatories identifying themselves, indicates that Nicaraguans commemorate this historic date and reaffirm their commitment to “work for the restitution of democracy in Nicaragua.”
The former presidential hopeful Juan Sebastian Chamorro said tersely to Article 66 that this call “can be signed by any Nicaraguan who is or is not a former politician.” The document was also shared by the former candidate Félix Maradiaga, through his Twitter account.
In the framework of the social protests five years ago, “the anonymous signatories” pointed out that “the defense of rights and freedom called us to this fight, the spilled blood exhorts us to continue fighting.”
