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Canada Hands Ortega-Murillo Regime New Sanctions

The sanctions are “a response to the continuous human rights violations being committed in Nicaragua,” stated a press release.

This fall Nicaraguan autocrat Daniel Ortega will run for his fourth consecutive term alongside his wife, and vice-president, Rosario Murillo.

A total of 100 functionaries and family members were affected, accused of furthering the “Ortega-Murillo regime’s assault on democracy”.

The November 7th elections have already been obliterated, due to Ortega’s and Murillo’s fears of submitting to the popular will.

Sixteen months since American Airlines suspended flights to Nicaragua, the country remains without arrivals from any major US airlines,

She went into exile in Costa Rica after accusing her adoptive father, Daniel Ortega, of rape and 19 years of abuse in 1998.

On July 10, the Scotland joined the international outrage at the ongoing & stepped-up human rights abuses by the Nicaraguan government.

European deputies call on the European Union to broaden sanctions against the presidential couple and their inner circle.

The government of Vladimir Putin is closing ranks with its Nicaraguan ally, Daniel Ortega, to denounce what they consider US “interference.”

Nicaragua has been ruled by dictatorships for 40% of its years as an independent republic. Now it’s once more struggling to be free of Ortega.