Nicaragua has ended visa-free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years \u2060on their journey north to the United States.
People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortega\u2019s administration appeared \u2060to be responding to pressure from Washington.
The United States under both the Trump and Biden administrations has accused Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of allowing Cubans and other nationals to pass freely through Nicaragua \u2060and contribute to illegal migration to the U.S.
U.S. pressure on Managua has intensified in recent weeks following the capture by U.S. special forces of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, a close ally of Ortega.
In January Nicaragua’s government announced it \u200dhad freed dozens of people from its national penitentiary system, after the U.S. demanded the release of more than 60 political prisoners in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nicaragua has ended visa-free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years \u2060on their journey north to the United States.People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortega\u2019s administration appeared \u2060to be responding to pressure from Washington.The United States under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n