The Member States of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) categorically reject and condemn the extension for another year of Executive Order 13851 issued in 2018 by the outgoing U.S. administration, in which it senselessly and unreasonably declares Nicaragua as “an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States”, which occurred last November 22, 2024.

The hidden intention of this reiterated and interfering Executive Order is to promote a change of government unconstitutionally and by force in Nicaragua. Clearly, the pattern of criminal and illegal sanctions imposed against the Nicaraguan State since 2018, has no other purpose but to cause difficulties and restrictions for the Nicaraguan people, with the aim of facilitating the aggression and intervention actions by the U.S. government.

The Bolivarian Alliance denounces before the world the continued attack by the ruling elite in Washington against the blessed and always free sister Republic of Nicaragua, disrespecting the Charter of the United Nations and the International Law, including the right to self-determination of the people of Sandino and the principle of non-interference in internal affairs, while warning that it is precisely this type of arbitrary decisions and unilateral coercive measures that constitutes a truly unusual, illegal and increasingly regular threat to peace and the right to development of Nicaragua and of dozens of countries and billions of human beings around the world.

ALBA-TCP reaffirms its unrestricted support and solidarity with the Nicaraguan people, its Government of Reconciliation and National Unity and its President, Commander Daniel Ortega Saavedra.

Caracas, November 25, 2024