US President Joe Biden has announced this Wednesday the extension of the Renacer Act. Sanctions on Nicaragua Three days after the celebration Questionable choices He described it as a “pantomime” and it still reigns for five years for Daniel Ortega. According to the White House, “Nicaragua’s wrong election is neither free nor fair. It is certainly not democratic.”

In Nicaragua (Renacer) the so-called Conditional Law on Electoral Reform was passed by Congress last week, giving Biden broad powers to impose sanctions on Nicaragua, including the exclusion of the Free Trade Agreement. Power. It also adds Nicaragua to the list of Central American countries subject to visa restrictions for corruption, and requires additional investigative reports on the actions of the Russian government in Central America, including documents on military sales from Moscow to Managua.

At Release In announcing the signing of the law, the White House explains that “Daniel Ortega imposes sanctions on the government” to control debt in multilateral banks and stop the regime’s corruption. The law sends a strong message and new tools to the government of Ortega and Rosario Murillo, who have been accused of corruption and dictatorship, and to the attempt to undermine the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people. To do this, Washington must work with Canada, the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean countries to increase US sanctions against those who violate human rights and prevent free elections.

On Sunday, Biden became the first foreign president Reject the Nicaraguan election He recalled human rights abuses in Central America since June. “The Ordega and Murillo family, long unpopular and now without democratic mandate, rule Nicaragua as dictators, not different from the Somoza family where Ordega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago,” the president wrote in a statement from the White House. . In addition, he warned that his country would use “all diplomatic and economic tools” to support the people of Nicaragua and would “hold the Ordega-Murillo government accountable for its abuses.”

In a statement, the U.S. executive thanked legislators for their “leadership” in promoting the initiative, which was approved last week with broad bipartisan support. They include Dick Turbin, Number Two Democrat in the Upper House and Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Republican senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Also featured are Democrat Congressman Alfio Cyrus and his Republican colleague Maria Elvira Salazar, her ex-husband Arturo Cruz, one of seven detained presidential loyalists.

Ortega, which has been in power since 2007, won for the fourth time in a row on Sunday. After learning of the decision, Biden issued a statement in May imprisoning about forty opposition leaders, including seven potential candidates for the presidency – and vetoing the participation of other parties, members of the press and civil society activists, and thousands of deportees.

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