US President Joe Biden signed a law Wednesday that enables new sanctions against the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, which Washington considers a “dictatorship.”
Biden sanctioned the “Law to Strengthen Nicaragua’s Adherence to the Conditions for the Electoral Reform of 2021”, better known as the RENACER Law for its acronym in English, “which imposes sanctions on the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega,” reported the White House in a statement, noting that it allows “restrict multilateral bank lending and combat the corruption of the regime “.
After the closing of the voting in Nicaragua last Sunday, Joe Biden issued a harsh statement in which he described the elections that will give a new mandate to Daniel Ortega as “a pantomime”. And without using the word, he described the regime as a dictatorship.
Daniel Ortega was re-elected after highly questioned commissions. Photo: AFP
“They were neither free nor fair, and they were certainly not democratic, “the president of the United States called” what Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, orchestrated today, “this Sunday.
“The arbitrary imprisonment of almost 40 opposition figures since May, including seven possible presidential candidates, and the blocking of the participation of political parties rigged the result long before election day,” they initially listed.
The statement continued in the same condemnatory tone: “Independent media closed, they locked up journalists and members of the private sector and intimidated civil society organizations into closing their doors. “
“For a long time unpopular and now without a democratic mandate, the Ortega and Murillo family now rule Nicaragua as autocrats, nothing to do with the Somoza family that Ortega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago, “Biden said.
Source: AFP
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