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Nicaragua slams US and EU sanctions imposed hours before Ortega presidential inauguration
Neighbors watch the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega, on a giant screen at a park in the Julio Buitrago neighborhood of Managua, Nicaragua, Monday, January 10, 2022

NICARAGUA has hit out at a new raft of sanctions imposed on the country just hours before President Daniel Ortega’s inauguration on Monday.

The measures targeting a number of Nicaraguan officials were announced as Mr Ortega was sworn in for a fourth consecutive term of office in a ceremony in the capital Managua attended by dignitaries and guests from across the world.

Sanctions were imposed by the European Union and the United States, which denounced the November 7 elections won convincingly by Mr Ortega and his Sandinista National Liberation Front as “a sham.”

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