Canada Announces Sanctions on 9 Nicaraguan Officials

Canada imposed sanctions on nine Nicaraguan officials under the country’s Special Economic Measures Regulations, Canada said in a June 21 press release. Canada announced the sanctions in response to “gross and systematic human rights violations committed in Nicaragua,” it said in a separate release. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also recently announced sanctions on four Nicaraguan government officials (see 1906210041). In fact, the Global Affairs Canada release said Canada is taking its actions in “coordination with the United States.”