Nicaragua: Washington sanctions four officials close to Ortega

The United States imposed financial sanctions on Wednesday, June 9 on four Nicaraguan officials close to President Daniel Ortega, including his daughter Camila Antonia Ortega Murillo, after a series of arrests of opponents for which Washington has called for

release

.

The four people targeted

,

he said. the US Treasury said in a statement.

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Besides the daughter of the president, coordinator of the Commission for the Creative Economy, they are the president of the Central Bank Leonardo Ovidio Reyes Ramirez, the deputy Edwin Ramon Castro Rivera, and the general Julio Modesto Rodriguez Balladares, executive director of the Institute of Military Social Security. Their possible assets in the United States are frozen and access to the American financial system is now barred to them.

Four opposition candidates for the November presidential election in Nicaragua, for which Daniel Ortega could run for a fourth term, have been arrested in recent days.

Washington said Tuesday that these arrests demonstrated that the president was a

, calling on the international community to

.

,

, hammered the spokesman for American diplomacy Ned Price to the press, clearly linking the sanctions to this wave of arrests.

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He warned that President Ortega

would be held personally

of detainees.

insisted Ned Price, letting the threat of new sanctions hang.

said US Treasury official Andrea Gacki in the statement.

she added.