US Urges Isolating Nicaragua After Ortega Vows to End Elections
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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Rubio Warns Nicaragua Not to Abolish Elections
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Nicaragua after its socialist leader, Daniel Ortega, announced that the Central American country will abolish elections. “The Trump Administration and the international community will not stand by as the Murillo-Ortega dictatorship deepens repression at home and manufactures instability that threatens U.S. national security,” Rubio posted on X on July 21. “Ortega’s pledge to abolish elections in Nicarag…
The State Department calls for the international community to unite against the regime’s attacks on the “democratic values” of the American continent
Two days after Nicaragua's president, Daniel Ortega, ruled out the holding of new elections in the country to prevent the opposition, currently in exile, from returning to power, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, condemned the statements. In a statement published on Tuesday, Rubio said that Ortega's decision reveals its true authoritarian nature, and asked the international community to show that it can't continue to act as if nothin…
Criticizing Nicaraguan figure Daniel Ortega, U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a Republican from Florida, declared in a post on X, "After Cuba, Nicaragua is next."
The Nicaraguan president said that the measure is intended to prevent opponents from “catching the government,” thus cancelling the 2027 elections. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on the international community to “unite forces” to demonstrate to the “dictatorship that it cannot continue to do as if nothing happened.”
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