US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spoken to his Nicaraguan counterpart, foreign minister Denis Moncada, in a rare high-level contact between the two countries.
The call on Friday came a day after Managua released 222 political prisoners arrested in crackdowns in the wake of anti-government protests that began in the Latin American country in 2018. The majority of those prisoners were allowed to travel to the United States.
