The United States could be preparing a new package of sanctions against the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, as warned by the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby.
The expansion of the blacklist would be linked to the intensification of repression in Nicaragua, especially against the Catholic Church. The sanctions would possibly drag the textile industry out of free zones and the gold trade.
Kirby stressed that the dictatorship in Nicaragua deepens the “dramatic deterioration” of democratic principles and human rights.
The White House official considered that “all of this is unacceptable”, referring to the repressive escalation, mainly against the clergy and their institutions, whose bank accounts have been frozen and now he accuses of harboring a money laundering network, in addition to continuing to arrest priests. “We condemn these actions,” said the delegate of the Joe Biden administration.
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Within the framework of International Children’s Day, the Nicaraguan University Alliance denounced that the administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has violated the human rights of Nicaraguan boys and girls, recalling the murders of minors executed in 2018 while others have been subjected into exile, because of state repression.
In the context of the social protests of five years ago, “which were repressed by the Ortega dictatorship”, at least 29 people under the age of 18 were murdered in Nicaragua, according to the report of the Nicaraguan Coordinating Federation of NGOs that Work with Children and Adolescence (CODENI).
The National Assembly, controlled by the Ortega steamroller, approved, via legislative decree, the authorization to the Executive for six months to allow the entry into national territory of foreign military troops, ships, ships and aircraft “for exchange and humanitarian purposes.”
The press release from the National Assembly specifies that the decree authorizes the entry into the national territory of Russian military personnel, ships and aircraft to participate in “training and exchange exercises in humanitarian aid operations, search, rescue and rescue missions in emergency situations and natural disasters; as well as for the exchange of experiences, training, operations against illicit in maritime spaces”, which demonstrates the strengthening of military relations with Vladimir Putin, indicated as responsible for the invasion of Ukraine.
The deputies also authorized the entry of soldiers from the member countries of the Central American Armed Forces Conference (CFAC), Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, as well as from Mexico, Cuba, the United States, and Venezuela.
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega will be able to steal all the assets and financing that belonged to the canceled Nicaraguan Red Cross Association, whether or not they are legally registered as its property.
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Those same deputies who obey the Ortega-Murillo family approved this Thursday the Organic Law of the Nicaraguan Red Cross, an institution that the regime decided to take away to place it under its control and appropriate its assets.
With this regulation, powers are granted to the dictatorship not only to keep everything that belonged to the Red Cross but also to operate with the financing of the entity.
On May 10, the Ortega steamroller abolished the Nicaraguan Red Cross Association, which functioned as a member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Likewise, it directed that the Nicaraguan Red Cross begin to function “as an autonomous and decentralized entity attached to the Ministry of Health”, with which it would have to respond to the designs of the dictator Ortega.
