US Treasury sanctioned Nicaraguan President daughter
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10 Jun 2021, 07:55 GMT+10
Washington [US], June 10 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States imposed sanctions on four Nicaraguan nationals, including the daughter of President Daniel Ortega, the US Treasury Department announced on Wednesday.
Camila Antonia Ortega Murillo, one of the president s nine children and coordinator of the Creative Economy Commission, was added to the Specially Designated Nationals list run by the Treasury s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
The three other sanctioned individuals include Leonardo Ovidio Reyes Ramirez, President of the Central Bank of Nicaragua; Edwin Ramon Castro Rivera, a deputy of the Nicaraguan National Assembly; and Julio Modesto Rodriguez Balladares, a brigadier general of the Nicaraguan Army and executive director of the Military Social Welfare Institute.
Nicaragua has "vigorously" protested the sanctions imposed Wednesday by the United States against four advisers to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, including his daughter Camila Antonia Ortega Murillo, following the arrests in recent days of opposition leaders and candidates preparing for the elections.
The US Department of the Treasury on Wednesday slapped sanctions on the daughter of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and a top army official, a day after the arrests of two more potential opposition candidates for the presidency.
The US said that the sanctions are intended to force the Ortega regime to return to democratic procedures.
Ortega’s daughter Camila Ortega Murillo became the 31st official or relative of the Ortega regime to have their US assets blocked since 2017.
The sanctions also prohibit US citizens from dealing with them.
Also sanctioned were the leader of Ortega’s Sandinista party in the Nicaraguan Congress, the head of
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