The United States will impose visa restrictions on more than 250 Nicaraguan government officials, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday (18).
President Daniel Ortega was accused of serious human rights and crimes violations, in which the United Nations described as a “strongly coordinated repression system”.
UN experts state that Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who acts as a co -president of Nicaragua after a recent constitutional reform, created a centralized and repressive regime that co -opted all branches of the government and affected the boundaries between party and state.
Nicaragua underwent mass protests against the government in 2018, when Ortega’s repression of dissent resulted in the deaths of more than 350 people and caused an international clamor on rights abuses.
“With this new set of restrictions, the US government has now taken measures to impose visa restrictions on more than two thousand authorities of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, who deprived the Nicaraguan people of their fundamental freedoms and forced many to exile,” Rubio said in a statement.
“The United States will not tolerate the continuous attack of Ortega and Murillo to Nicaragua,” he said.
In the past, the government of Ortega has ignored accusations of abuses of rights and repression, which, he said, are part of an international campaign against him.
This content was originally published in the US restricted visas to over 250 Nicaragua government officials on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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