FILE PHOTO: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega holds a document while speaking during an event with Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez (not pictured) where they signed a territorial treaty to define their borders in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, in Managua, Nicaragua October 27, 2021. Picture taken October 27, 2021. Honduras Presidency/Handout via REUTERS
November 3, 2021
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday for legislation clamping down on Nicaragua ahead of its Nov. 7 election, which Washington has denounced as a sham organized by President Daniel Ortega.
As voting continued, the vote was 290 to 13 in favor of the measure. Since the Senate has already passed it, House approval sends the bill to the White House, where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle and Matt Spetalnick, Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
Source: One America News Network
