The United States imposed sanctions against the training center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nicaragua

US Treasury Building

The United States imposed sanctions against the training center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, and two local gold mining companies COMINTSA and Capital Mining. The US Department of the Treasury reported this.

The restrictions also target Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's ability to "manipulate the gold mining sector and profit from corrupt transactions."

According to the US Treasury, the Interior Ministry Center in Managua (RTC) trains Nicaraguan security forces who “unfairly detain and imprison individual citizens of the country for expressing dissent and otherwise restrict the rights and freedoms of local residents.”

The US Treasury said that the country's president, using security forces trained at the Ministry of Internal Affairs center and exploiting the gold mining sector, continues “an anti-democratic campaign of repression against its citizens.”

The training center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Nicaragua was opened in 2017. In addition to local police, security forces from Central America and the Caribbean can also train there.

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