The Biden administration is tightening the screws on Nicaragua’s authoritarian government. An executive order signed by President Joe Biden this week makes it all but illegal for Americans to do business with Nicaragua’s gold industry. It also freezes the assets of a key Nicaraguan government adviser, while revoking the US visas of other insiders. Host Marco Werman gets more details from Ricardo Zúniga, a senior official at the State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
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