In the early evening of Monday, 4 May, the Council of the European Union decided to sanction six leaders in Daniel Ortega’s Nicaraguan regime who are held responsible for serious human rights violations and repression of civil society and the political opposition, as EUROPE had anticipated (see EUROPE B12478A41).
These six persons—who are prohibited from entering the EU and whose EU assets have been frozen—are Ramón Antonio Avellán Medal, deputy director-general of the...