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CLAIMS that Nicaragua is “weaponising” immigration by allowing free passage of migrants towards the US border have been appearing regularly in the media.
The BBC (in Spanish, in July) is the latest, but similar reports have appeared in the Associated Press, in Spain’s El Pais and in the Miami Herald, to name just a few.
In May, the Biden administration accused the Nicaraguan government of “repressing people and preying on migrants,” imposing new sanctions on those it believed responsible.
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