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The BBC (in Spanish, in July) is the latest, but similar reports have appeared in the Associated Press, in Spain’s El Pais and in the Miami Herald, to name just a few.
In May, the Biden administration accused the Nicaraguan government of “repressing people and preying on migrants,” imposing new sanctions on those it believed responsible.
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