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The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on Daniel Ortega’s rule in Nicaragua, threatening a ban on Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry.
Biden's order and other steps announced Monday are perhaps the most aggressive attempt by the U.S. to hold the Ortega accountable for his continued attacks on human rights and democracy.
The Biden administration is ratcheting up pressure on President Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule in Nicaragua, banning Americans from doing business in the nation’s gold industry, threatening trade restrictions and stripping the U.S. visas of some 500 government insiders
By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
The US has slapped new sanctions on Nicaragua's mining industry for “financing” the government of President Daniel Ortega, in the latest push against the Latin American nation's leader who won a fourth consecutive term as president in November 2021.