The United States has banned the entry of 50 Nicaraguan citizens linked to the Daniel Ortega dictatorship

The United States imposed this Friday visa restrictions for 50 direct relatives of Nicaraguan lawmakers, prosecutors and judges linked to the regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice-president, Rosario Murillo, denouncing the arrest of around thirty opponents.

“As these measurements demonstrate, United States pledges to promote broad accountability to anyone responsible or beneficiary of the Ortega-Murillo regime’s attacks on democratic institutions, ”the State Department said in a statement.

Then he remembered the wave of arrests by the dictatorship of dozens of opponents, many of whom are running for president.

State Department did not provide a list of officials concerned, and in July, a spokesperson told the news agency Efe that he could not identify those who had lost their US visas because the data on these documents is confidential under US law.

The statement was released the same day the United States Senate approved the “Reborn” bill, supported by Democrats and Republicans, to promote an election “free and fair“In Nicaragua.

This was reported on Friday by one of the promoters of this proposal, the Democratic Senator and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the US Upper House, Bob menendez.

In a statement, said legislative committee explained that Proposal serves to dramatically increase US diplomatic engagement with Ortega’s “repressive tactics” intimidate and arrest opposition candidates in the November 7 elections.

The bill to strengthen compliance with the conditions of electoral reform in Nicaragua (Renacer, for its acronym in English) extends supervision of loans from international financial institutions to Nicaragua.

In addition, advocates the imposition of selective sanctions on Nicaraguan officials and that these be coordinated with the Government of Canada and the European Union, in addition to asking that Review of Nicaragua’s continued participation in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta).

The initiative also serves add Nicaragua to the list of Central American countries subject to US visa restrictions corruption-related and requires access to classified reports on suspected corrupt activities carried out by Ortega’s executive and his family.

Other points of the proposal focus on the relations between Russia and NicaraguaTherefore, documents are requested on Russian military sales in Nicaragua and a review of possible actions that may be punishable.

Renacer was introduced last March by lawmakers from both American parties, led by Menendez and the republican senator Marco rubio.

In the current electoral process, Nicaraguan authorities arrested more than 30 opposition leaders, including seven presidential candidates.

The Supreme Electoral Council, controlled by supporters of Ortega, he also annulled the legal personality of two political parties, and Parliament, where the ruling party has the absolute majority, reformed the electoral law, which established greater control over the structure of elections in favor of the Sandinistas.

Ortega, a former guerrilla in his seventies, is running for his fifth five-year term, the fourth in a row and the second with his wife, Vice-President Rosario Murillo, in the general elections on November 7.

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