Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
June 8,
2026
The United States will not ignore the
Murillo-Ortega dictatorship’s responsibility for the
horrific death of political prisoner Brooklyn Rivera.
U.S.-sanctioned Lumberto Campbell Hooker was directly
involved in denying medical care to Brooklyn Rivera and
prevented his family from burying his remains.
Today
the Trump Administration took decisive steps to impose
additional visa restrictions on more than 100 dictatorship
officials and their family members. With this new set of
restrictions, the U.S. government has now taken steps to
impose visa restrictions on over 2,350 Nicaraguan officials
and their family members for their complicit role in Rosario
Murillo and Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship. The United
States stands with the Nicaraguan people who, like Rivera,
aspire to see a free Nicaragua.
This action was taken
pursuant to Presidential Proclamation 10309, which suspends
entry into the United States as immigrants and
non-immigrants for members of the Government of Nicaragua
and other individuals who formulate, implement, or benefit
from policies or actions that undermine democratic
institutions.
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