OFAC targets 5 senior Nicaraguan officials, freezing their U.S. assets and striking at the regime’s financial, labor, communications, and military apparatus used to repress political opponents 

Action targets senior figures leading Nicaragua’s financial-intelligence, telecommunications, labour and military-intelligence bodies for supporting the regime’s campaign against political opponents and civil society. The designations block any property or interests in property within U.S. jurisdiction and prohibit U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with the listed officials, forming part of broader U.S. efforts to hold the Nicaraguan government accountable for human-rights abuses and democratic backsliding…