Continuing to Promote Accountability for the Murillo-Ortega Dictatorship

The United States will not ignore the Murillo-Ortega dictatorship’s responsibility for the horrific death of political prisoner Brooklyn Rivera.  U.S.-sanctioned Lumberto Campbell Hooker was directly involved in denying medical care to Brooklyn Rivera and prevented his family from burying his remains.

Today the Trump Administration took decisive steps to impose additional visa restrictions on more than 100 dictatorship officials and their family members.  With this new set of restrictions, the U.S. government has now taken steps to impose visa restrictions on over 2,350 Nicaraguan officials and their family members for their complicit role in Rosario Murillo and Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship.  The United States stands with the Nicaraguan people who, like Rivera, aspire to see a free Nicaragua.

This action was taken pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 10309, which suspends entry into the United States as immigrants and nonimmigrants for members of the Government of Nicaragua and other individuals who formulate, implement, or benefit from policies or actions that undermine democratic institutions.  For questions, please reach out to https://www.state.gov/newsroom/.