As we speak, we’re asserting steps to impose visa restrictions on over 500 Nicaraguan people and their relations. We’re doing so pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 10309, which suspends entry into the US as immigrants and nonimmigrants of members of the Authorities of Nicaragua and different individuals who formulate, implement or profit from insurance policies or actions that undermine democratic establishments or impede the return to democracy in Nicaragua. These people embody members of Nicaraguan safety companies, such because the Nicaraguan Nationwide Police, penitentiary officers, judges, prosecutors, greater training officers and non-government actors who allow regime repression and corruption in addition to their relations. No member of the Nicaraguan authorities nor anybody who facilitates the Ortega-Murillo regime’s abuses ought to consider they will journey freely to the US.
The White Home additionally introduced an modification to Government Order (E.O.) 13851 on Nicaragua that expands sanctions authorities, together with particular trade-related measures for Nicaragua. These new authorities will help our efforts to carry the Ortega-Murillo regime accountable. The regime’s accelerating actions this yr closing house for civil society, rising its safety cooperation with Russia, and silencing unbiased voices regardless of broad worldwide requires dialogue and moderation compel the US to behave. Governments that deny their individuals’s primary rights or threaten the safety pursuits of their neighbors shouldn’t anticipate that their political, financial, and commerce relationships will stay unaffected.
At the side of the E.O. announcement, the U.S. Division of the Treasury’s Workplace of Overseas Property Management imposed sanctions on Nicaraguan mining authority Common Directorate of Mines, an workplace within the Ministry of Vitality and Mines, and Reinaldo Gregorio Lenin Cerna Juarez, a detailed confidante of Nicaraguan President Ortega, pursuant to E.O. 13851.
America, along with our allies and companions, believes {that a} return to democracy and respect for human rights and basic freedoms in Nicaragua is crucial. We are going to use diplomatic and financial instruments obtainable to advertise accountability for the Ortega-Murillo regime, reiterate our name for the instant and unconditional launch of political prisoners, and urge the restoration of civic house for the individuals of Nicaragua.
For extra info on as we speak’s motion, see the White House and Treasury releases.