USA sanctions three senior Nicaraguan officials close to Daniel Ortega

Washington began pressuring Nicaragua by imposing sanctions on several government positions. With Venezuela, he did the same thing.

The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against the Nicaraguan police chief, Francisco Díaz, consuegra of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, as well as against the vice president of the oil company Albanisa, Francisco López; and Fidel Moreno Briones, Secretary General of the Mayor's Office of Managua

The purpose of the sanctions is "to send a message" to other Nicaraguan officials so that they know that "support a government that incitement to violence "results in losing access to the US financial system, explained senior US officials, who requested anonymity

The sanctioned persons will be frozen all their property under US jurisdiction and will not have the right to make financial transactions in the United States.

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At a press conference, senior US officials They specified that the sanctions are an "immediate response" to the crisis in Nicaragua, the more bloody since the 1980s, with Ortega as president, and that has left more than 300 dead and more than 2,500 wounded.

Francisco Díaz has been described as the "de facto head" of the Nicaraguan National Police, whom organizations such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) have accused of committing serious violations human rights in collaboration with paramilitary groups. 19659005] United States considers that, under the orders of Díaz, the Nicaraguan police committed extrajudicial executions

on another of the sanctions, Moreno Briones, the head of the United States. They said that their current role is the "liaison" between the municipal governments and the Sandinista National Front of Liberation (FSLN), although they also acted as the "leader" of Sandinista youth.

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Washington claims that in early 2017, Moreno recruited motorists to help suppress protesters, an image that has been seen in the current protests.

Accuse Lopez of having pocketed "large amounts of money" using his position as Vice President of Albanisa, the company that imports and sells Venezuelan petroleum products, and as Chairman of Petroleum Distributor Petroleum (Nicaragua). integrated by Petronic, which contributes 49% of the capital, and by the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), which contributes the remaining 51%.

López, who is also treasurer of the FSLN, would have facilitated the recourse to Nicaraguan senior officials the funds of the FSLN and Albanisa himself to buy radio and television stations, hotels, farms and restaurants. Breeding, power plants and pharmaceutical laboratories.