CHAIRWOMAN SALAZAR LEADS HOUSE HEARING ON NICARAGUA, WARNS OF GROWING U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT

Washington, Sept. 15 -- Representative María Elvira Salazar issued the following press release:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative María Elvira Salazar (FL-27), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, convened a hearing titled "Confronting the Totalitarian Ortega-Murillo Regime," examining the dictatorship's repression of the Nicaraguan people, its growing cooperation with America's adversaries, and the threat it poses to U.S. national security. "Nicaragua is not forgotten. Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have spent years dismantling democracy, persecuting the Church, crushing political opposition, and acting as if the country were their private property. Now they are o...