Brooklyn Rivera, an Indigenous activist from Nicaragua's Caribbean coast whose death in government custody last month drew international condemnation, became the focus of new U.S. sanctions announced Monday against more than 100 Nicaraguan officials and their relatives.
In a statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the visa restrictions were imposed in part because of the death of Rivera, a 73-year-old Miskito leader and president of the Indigenous party Yatama, who had been imprisoned since September 2023 after criticizing the government of President Daniel Ortega and co-president Rosario Murillo.
