U.S. imposes sanctions on four high-ranking Nicaraguan officials
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  • 22:29 21 June 2019

U.S. imposes sanctions on four high-ranking Nicaraguan officials

 The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on four high-ranking Nicaraguan government officials for allegedly preventing their country’s citizens from exercising fundamental freedoms, ONA rpeorts quoting Reuters.

Among them are the head of Nicaragua’s National Assembly, Gustavo Cortes; the chief of the state-run telecommunications agency, Orlando Castillo; the minister of health, Sonia Gonzalez; and the minister of transportation, Oscar Obregon, the Treasury Department said in a statement.

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