The Biden administration is threatening to take action against Nicaragua over the election held on Sunday resulted in Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega securing a fourth term.
President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken both released statements declaring the election a “sham” and threatening new sanctions.
“We will continue to use diplomacy, coordinated actions with regional allies and partners, sanctions, and visa restrictions, as appropriate, to promote accountability for those complicit in supporting the Ortega-Murillo government’s undemocratic acts,” Blinken said on Monday.
On Friday, US officials told Reuters that the Biden administration was already preparing fresh sanctions on Nicaragua over the election. The US decided the election was a “sham” before it even happened, the accusation being that Ortega jailed most of his political opponents.
Sanctions against Nicaragua have strong bipartisan backing in Washington. Last week, the House passed a bill that would implement sanctions on Nicaragua in a vote of 387 to 35. The week before, the legislation passed easily through the Senate and is expected to be signed once it reaches President Biden’s desk.
Russia is standing behind Ortega and condemned Washington’s calls not to recognize the election results. “As far as I understand, just yesterday in the evening, when the voting was over, the White House declared its refusal to recognize the election and called on other countries to do the same. We consider it inadmissible and strongly condemn such a policy,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday, according to Tass.
Please do and prove ur urself as a politically dumb admin just like u r morally bankrupt.
With hard sanction the economy will be destroyed with or without change in government and a flood of immigrants will come in just in time for 2024. Giving the world another four years of Trump.
Actions like this sometimes genuinely makes me wish us just implodes and stop messing up the world
Sanctionimous.
It is amazing to ignore elections with such turnout and vote. He was a hero who freed the country from US supported Contra terrorists.
Trying to support fake opposition with their goons did not work, so now rage and fury over the failure. There were observers, but US and UK banned journalists to go and cover elections. I am sure all European vassals did the same.
Yet, there was plenty of other observers there. Sanctions will be toothless as Nicaragua is not landlocked. There is simply nothing Nicaragua needs that only US and allies can provide. Not for imports and not for exports. There were factual sanctions in place for a while.
Not to mention US influence over neighboring states that caused delays over plans for new canal built by China to avoid US controlled Panama.
we know a rigged election when we see one, well because, you know.. never mind how we know, we just know!
These clowns are probing for new lows in hypocrisy and irrelevance; they are toothless and delusional. They bark but the caravan moves on.
Seems the Trump ‘war on socialism’ is now being picked up by the new administration. War agendas span administrations. When Biden lifted sanctions on Venezuela, other Dems. in Wash. were against it.
Look, we own the world and we decide who rules each sovereign nation.
Do as we tell you. Venezuela is suffering because they have disobeyed us since 1998 -how dare people vote for those we have not chosen??
See how happy and successful Ukraine is now with our advice on elections and defense.
Notice how Russia has descended into chaos under our sanctions-may never recover.
We are the greatest-don’t argue. Our military successes will demonstrate this to the world, as we all saw in Afghanistan.
Yet… we are supposed to be outraged when other nations interfere in US politics?
Caitlan has a great one about this over at her website
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/11/09/all-us-elections-are-fraudulent-shut-up-about-nicaragua/
All US Elections Are Fraudulent; Shut Up About Nicaragua
“….New York Times correspondent Natalie Kitroeff reported that Ortega has been “arresting all credible challengers; shutting down opposition parties; banning large campaign events; closing voting stations en masse” and that “there were no billboards or campaign posters” for the opposition, all claims that have been squarely refuted by observers reporting on the scene like Wyatt Reed, Ben Norton, Margaret Kimberly, Ahmed Kaballo, Caleb Maupin and others…..”
“….All US elections for positions of real power are fraudulent. None of
them ever permit real opposition. It’s a one-party system controlled by
plutocratic and military institutions fraudulently disguised as
democracy, and yet people who call themselves “journalists” have the
temerity to criticize the integrity of Latin American elections without
ever criticizing their own….”