The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on five Nicaraguan government officials who lead the principal financial, communications, and military agencies that enable Nicaragua's Murillo-Ortega dictatorship to repress its people.
The individuals sanctioned include Retired Major General Denis Membreno Rivas, the Director of Nicaragua's Financial Analysis Unit; former Police Chief Commissioner Aldo Martin Saenz Ulloa, the Deputy Director of the Unit; Johana Vanessa Flores Jimenez, the Minister of Labor; Celia Margarita Reyes Ochoa, the Deputy Director General of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services, and Major General Leonel Jose Gutierrez Lopez, the head of the Nicaraguan Army's Directorate of Military Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
by Joji Xavier
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