MIAMI.- The US sanctioned more than a dozen officials, prosecutors, judges and businessmen from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras y The Savior considering that they undermined the democracy of their countries and participated in serious acts of corruption.
Among those penalized are three prosecutors from Guatemala whom Washington denounces for having led an investigation that pursues political ends to cast doubt on the results of the last presidential elections and hinder the presidential transition of the winner, Bernardo Arévalo.
All of those mentioned were included in a list of foreigners who do not qualify to obtain visas and are inadmissible to enter this country, or whose visas or entry documents to the US will be revoked or canceled if they have been previously issued.
The announcement took place at a time when the United States is trying to stop the migration of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from Central America to the north.
These are four Nicaraguans, four Guatemalans, three Hondurans and three Salvadorans, who thus join a group of about 50 that make up the list.
Guatemala
Among those sanctioned in Guatemala are the current prosecutors Leonor Eugenia Morales Lazo, Pedro Hernández González and Noe Rivera Vásquez, and the former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) Silvia Patricia Valdés Quezada.
To the first two, he attributes actions to stop the transition of power scheduled for next January 14, and in the case of Rivera and Judge Valdés, with corruption in the justice system.
The international community, including the United States, in recent weeks condemned the Guatemalan prosecutor’s office for its attack against the electoral process, the elected president Bernardo Arévalo and his political party Movimiento Semilla, as well as against the electoral magistrates.
The Organization of American States (OAS) even accused her of encouraging a “coup d’état.”
The Savior
Those sanctioned from El Salvador are Ricardo Gómez, president commissioner of the Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP), for undermining democracy by blocking access to public information; and IAIP commissioners Gerardo Guerrero and Andrés Grégori Rodríguez.
Honduras
From Honduras, Strategic Planning Minister Ricardo Arturo Salgado Bonilla, businessman Mohammad Yusuf Amdani Bai, and Cristian Adolfo Sanchez.
Nicaragua
In the case of Nicaragua, Judge Gloria María Saavedra Corrales was penalized, whom the US considers used her public position to facilitate a campaign that suppressed dissent and confiscated property from a Jesuit university without legal bases, to install an administration close to the regime. Daniel Ortega.
Other Nicaraguans sanctioned are Maribel del Socorro Duriez González, president of a council for evaluation and accreditation of university institutions; Ramona Pérez Rodríguez, president of the National Council of Universities, and Enrique Genet Cruz, rector of the Casimiro Sotelo University, who according to Washington will have participated in a campaign against opponents of the regime.
Source: With information from Europa Press
