{"id":28131,"date":"2026-02-09T06:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/nicaragua-ends-visa-free-entry-for-cubans-after-us-pressure\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T06:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:28:40","slug":"nicaragua-ends-visa-free-entry-for-cubans-after-us-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/nicaragua-ends-visa-free-entry-for-cubans-after-us-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua ends visa-free entry for Cubans after US pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Nicaragua has ended visa\u2011free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years on their journey north to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The government confirmed the decision in a statement. People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortega\u2019s administration appeared to be responding to\u00a0pressure from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe United States under both the Trump and Biden administrations has accused Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo of allowing Cubans and other nationals to pass freely through Nicaragua and contribute to illegal migration to the US.<br \/>US pressure on Managua has intensified in recent weeks following the capture by US special forces of Venezuela&#8217;s president, Nicolas Maduro, a close ally of Ortega.<\/p>\n<p>In January Nicaragua&#8217;s government announced it had\u00a0freed dozens of people\u00a0from its national penitentiary system, after the US demanded the release of more than 60 political prisoners in the country. The move came as Venezuela, also under US pressure, began\u00a0releasing political prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/travel\/nicaragua-ends-visa-free-entry-for-cubans-after-us-pressure-19845382.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicaragua has ended visa\u2011free entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday, ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years on their journey north to the United States. The government confirmed the decision in a statement. People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortega\u2019s administration appeared to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}