The federation also announced sanctions against the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE), the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Posts (Telcor) and the supervisor of Nicaraguan banks.

In the same vein, the Treasury Department and the US Secretary of State announced new sanctions against people associated with the Nicaraguan military and police forces.

In announcing sanctions, the European Union spoke out An attempt to destabilize democracy By those allowed.

Already in November 2021, the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a proclamation signed by 25 of the 34 member states, rejecting Ortega’s fourth consecutive elections after warning that the elections were “not free, fair or transparent.” They have no democratic legitimacy.

Local opposition media outlets, such as La Prensa, confirmed that Ortega’s fourth series of possessions at the Plaza de la Revolución in Managua had the lowest attendance ever.

Only Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who arrived in the Nicaraguan capital this morning, was the only regional leader to attend the event; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

Bolivian Foreign Minister Erwin Mamani was also present.

Amid controversy over the legitimacy of elections in Central America, Other left-wing governments, such as Argentina and Mexico, sent diplomatic representatives At the inauguration ceremony.

A few days before the ceremony, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by Marcelo Ebert, announced that it would not send delegates to the Ordega inauguration ceremony.

However, during his morning break, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced that he would be sending the current head of the embassy in the country, as well as announcing the name of the new Mexican ambassador to Managua.

Similarly, the government of Alberto Fernandez in Argentina announced a few hours before the event that it was sending a delegation from the embassy in Managua.

In his inaugural address, Ortega called on the US president to release 700 political prisoners in US prisons, citing supporters of Donald Trump’s attack on Congress on January 6, 2021.

According to the newspaper La Princa, Ortega “He did not mention the more than 160 political prisoners in Nicaragua.”

He called for an end to the siege against Cuba and sanctions against Venezuela.

He referred to the recent resumption of his country’s diplomatic relations with China and the “cooperation and trade” agreements signed by his son with Beijing’s special envoy.

The other countries that sent the delegations, as announced by the Nicaraguan government, were Belize, Honduras, China, Iran, Palestine, the Sahrawi Arab Republic, Russia, India, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea, Angola, Syria, Turkey, Belarus, Egypt, Malaysia and Yemen.

According to the Chinese delegation, Xi Jinping’s ambassador to the National People’s Congress was Deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Zhao Jianming.

Gao was cleared by the United States a year ago for his role in persecuting protesters during the 2020 protests in Hong Kong.

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