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July 30, 2018 – 10:57
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Agencia EFE
The White House on Monday called for "fair, free and transparent elections" for the restoration of democracy in Nicaragua, and opened the door to more sanctions against those responsible for the regime of President Daniel Ortega he does not stop the "blind" violence that has already made more than 350 dead.
"Free, fair and transparent elections are the only way to restore democracy in Nicaragua," the White House said in a statement on the political crisis in the country of Central America.
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More precisely, the executive of the American president, Donald Trump, blames Ortega and his wife, the vice president Rosario Murillo, for " blind violence "and" police brutality "against demonstrators who demand" democratic reforms ".
Up to now, this United States has imposed sanctions against three senior Nicaraguan officials: Francisco Díaz, chief of the Nicaraguan police, and consuegra of the Nicaraguan president; Francisco López, vice president of the Albanian oil company; and Fidel Moreno Briones, general secretary of the Mayor of Managua
"This is the beginning, not the end, of potential sanctions," said the White House.
He announced that he would revoke the visas of Nicaraguan officials related to the violence against protesters, as well as their families, he added in the statement.
Similarly, the US government offered $ 1.5 million in aid to "continue support". to freedom and democracy in Nicaragua, providing fundamental support to civil society, human rights organizations and independent media currently under threat by the Ortega regime. "
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Acnudh) have made the Nicaraguan executive responsible for" killings, extrajudicial executions, ill-treatment, possible acts of torture and arbitrary detentions ", which Ortega denied
against Ortega began on April 18, for failed social security reforms and has become a resignation request of the agent.
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