Ortega, his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo, as well as a wide range of ministers and officials in the country will now be unable to enter the United States, as the United States accuses them of attacking democracy.
“The repression and abuse by the Ortega government and those who support it require the United States to act,” the American president said.
He said that he had decided not to let Ortega and those close to him into the United States after his reinstatement as president after the November 7 elections.
“I have decided that it is in the interests of the United States to restrict and suspend the entry into the United States of members of the Nicaraguan government led by President Daniel Ortega, including his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo and all those associated with actions that undermine the country’s democratic institutions.” Biden said in a statement.
The United States was blacklisted officials, their cabinet members, mayors and their deputies accused of human rights violations in order to punish peaceful demonstrators. The United States has also imposed sanctions on a range of senior security officials, government agencies, penitentiary services, the judiciary, and the Home Office. The wives and children of those hit by the sanctions are also barred from entering the United States.
Earlier, the US Treasury announced financial sanctions against the Federal Attorney’s Office of Nicaragua and nine high-ranking officials in the country in response to sham elections organized by President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo. The threat loomed in the aftermath of the November 7 elections, which were divested of opposition following the imprisonment of the president’s main rivals. President Biden called the election a “comedy” that led to the re-election of Daniel Ortega to a fourth term.
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