{"id":35983,"date":"2021-06-04T19:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35983"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:22:24","slug":"05-25-2021-0734-am-edt-antony-j-blinken-secretary-of-state-jerusalem-prime-mininster-netanyahu-secretary-blinken-tony-welcome-to-jerusalem-your-first-visit-as-the-secretary-of-state-i-hav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35983","title":{"rendered":"The United States calls on the Nicaraguan government to immediately release opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>06\/04\/2021 02:55 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ned Price, Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>The United States calls on the Nicaraguan government to immediately release opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro and her two colleagues from the recently shuttered Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation for Reconciliation and Democracy.\u00a0 Their detention on trumped up charges is an abuse of their rights, and it represents an assault on democratic values as well as a clear attempt to thwart free and fair elections.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Chamorro\u2019s arrest comes amid unrelenting attacks on pro-democracy presidential candidates and independent media.\u00a0 The Ortega regime has pledged to bar Ms. Chamorro from participating in November elections and, in May, baselessly canceled the legal status of two opposition political parties.\u00a0 Rather than implement electoral reforms by the May deadline established by the Organization of American States, President Ortega instead instituted further restrictions and reduced electoral transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The current conditions of repression and exclusion are not consistent with credible elections.\u00a0 The region and the international community must stand together with the Nicaraguan people in support of their right to freely choose their government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/04\/2021 02:55 PM EDT &nbsp; Ned&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35987,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions\/35987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}