Marco Rubio Urges Global Isolation of Nicaragua Over Election Halt
Rubio said Nicaragua cannot expect normal ties while Ortega blocks elections and has jailed dissenters, with at least 46 political prisoners reported.
- On Sunday, President Daniel Ortega announced that Nicaragua will cease to hold elections, declaring this prevents the opposition from seizing power during a ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution.
- Ortega, 80, has held power continuously since 2007; constitutional reforms enacted last year extended the presidential term to six years and named his wife, Rosario Murillo, as co-president.
- Since 2018, the government has dismantled nearly every independent institution by shutting down more than 5,000 organizations, while a 2023 United Nations investigation found widespread human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity.
- State Marco Rubio on Tuesday called on the international community to isolate Nicaragua, stating Ortega's declaration "lays bare their true authoritarian nature" and rejects democratic rule.
- Ortega vowed to work with the National Assembly on laws building a "barrier" against "traitors," while Rubio added that the regime and Murillo "have abandoned even the pretense of popular consent.
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He knows the U.S. response to Daniel Ortega: Marco Rubio warned that Washington will act before the end of the elections and political repression.
Rubio: Nicaragua Election Cancellation Threatens US Security
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's vow to end elections threatens U.S. national security and urged allies to coordinate a response after Ortega declared there would be no future vote, effectively canceling the November 2027 election.
The autocrat Nicaraguan president said Sunday that in his country "there will be no elections again" and sent Parliament to move forward with anti-democratic reforms.Washington restricted the visa to more than 2,350 officials and their families.
Faced with the refusal of the Co-President of this Central American country to organise the planned election in 2027, the US State Secretariat is raising its tone.
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