Nicaragua

1956-01-08

Chinandega, Nicaragua

C01118568, Passport

Additionally, OFAC designated three NNP commissioners, Juan Antonio Valle Valle, Luis Alberto Perez Olivas, and Justo Pastor Urbina, for their involvement as senior officials of the Government of Nicaragua and leaders of the NNP.  Luis Alberto Perez Olivas (Perez Olivas) is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13851 for being or having served as an official of the Government of Nicaragua and for being a leader of the NNP, an entity that has, or whose members have, engaged in serious human rights abuse in Nicaragua. Perez Olivas is also being designated pursuant to the NHRAA for being a leader of the NNP, an entity that has, or whose members have, engaged in significant acts of violence or conduct that constitutes a serious abuse or violation of human rights against persons associated with the protests that began on April 18, 2018. Perez Olivas is the Chief of the NNP’s Judicial Assistance Directorate, and Director of El Chipote prison. El Chipote is a prison known for abusive practices where human rights organizations have recorded serious human rights abuses since April 2018. There have been allegations of torture, rape, electrocution, lacerations with barbed wire, strangulation, and beating with steel tubes. A demonstrator held at El Chipote stated that masked men hung him from the ceiling and beat him with baseball bats, tubes, and guns for two days. Afterward, the demonstrator stated that he was taken to a masked man who he recognized by voice and build as Perez Olivas, who forced him to film a confession implicating other protesters.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm930

2020-03-05

US

Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act of 2018, Public Law 115-335, as amended, (formerly named Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018)

OFAC country specific

Nicaragua

Blocking Property, Suspending Entry

• https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/2581

Nicaragua Human Rights and Anticorruption Act of 2018 This bill imposes restrictions and sanctions on institutions and individuals responsible for the Nicaraguan government's violence and infringement of the civil rights of protesters. The Department of the Treasury shall take action to restrict international financial institutions, including those affiliated with the World Bank Group and the Inter-American Development Bank, from extending financial or technical assistance to Nicaragua's government and to develop policies for future lending that will advance human rights in the country. The President shall impose sanctions on foreign persons responsible for acts of corruption, significant human rights violations, violence against protesters in Nicaragua, or provided material support to such actions. Sanctions include blocking the assets of sanctioned individuals and barring them from entry into the United States. The Department of State shall report to Congress about various topics, including Nicaragua's efforts strengthening the rule of law and democratic governance, combatting corruption, and protecting human rights. The President may temporarily waive the sanctions if the State Department certifies that Nicaragua has taken effective steps on these issues. The President may also waive the sanctions if it is in the national interests of the United States to do so. The bill also directs the State Department devise a strategy for engaging Nicaragua's civil society to strengthen human rights protections and anti-corruption efforts.

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