Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar declares, 'After Cuba, Nicaragua is next'

Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar of Florida stated successful a Monday societal media station that "After Cuba, Nicaragua is next." 

The Central American nation's president, Daniel Ortega, said connected Sunday, "There won't beryllium immoderate much elections present for them to effort to prehend nan authorities and prehend power," according to Reuters. "The days erstwhile parties backed by nan Yankees (United States) and nan Somocistas would return to powerfulness are complete - ne'er again," he said, according to nan outlet.

In her Monday station connected X, Salazar said, "Daniel Ortega conscionable announced that Nicaragua will nary longer clasp elections. When a communist dictator knows nan group would ballot him out, he takes distant their vote. Repression, fear, and unit go nan only measurement to enactment successful power. The Ortega-Murillo authorities has declared warfare connected nan Nicaraguan people’s correct to take their ain future."

Ortega's woman Rosario Murillo is co-president, reports indicate.

"The United States must guidelines unequivocally pinch nan group of Nicaragua, summation nan unit connected this bad regime, and guarantee that those responsible for its crimes are held accountable. After Cuba, Nicaragua is next," Salazar added successful nan post.

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Rep. María Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., leaves a news convention successful nan U.S. Capitol connected developments regarding Cuba including nan indictment of erstwhile Cuban President Raul Castro, connected Wednesday, May 20, 2026.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The U.S. snatched Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and his woman retired of Venezuela and transported them backmost to nan U.S. earlier this year. 

The U.S. later launched a warfare against nan Islamic Republic of Iran successful conjunction pinch Israel.

And past during a reside successful March, U.S. President Donald Trump said "Cuba's next."

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Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua's president, during nan 23rd States of nan Bolivarian Alliance for nan Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) Summit astatine Miraflores Palace successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to Salazar's agency connected Tuesday to inquire much astir her remark suggesting that "After Cuba, Nicaragua is next."

The congresswoman said successful a Tuesday post on X, "One by one, nan dictators of nan past era are answering for their crimes. Maduro sleeps successful a compartment successful New York. The Ayatollah is dead. Raúl Castro is nether indictment. Daniel Ortega, whose authorities killed much than 300 serene protesters successful 2018, jailed guidance candidates earlier elections, exiled priests, stripped hundreds of Nicaraguans of their citizenship, and has now abolished elections altogether, still sits successful Managua. Communist dictators don't fearfulness losing elections. They fearfulness having them. His time will come." 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said successful a Tuesday statement, "Daniel Ortega’s declaration that nether his family’s dictatorship Nicaragua will ne'er again clasp elections lays bare their existent authoritarian nature. Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo person abandoned moreover nan pretense of celebrated consent.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi up of their bilateral gathering astatine nan U.S. State Department successful Washington, D.C., United States, connected July 14, 2026. (Mehmet Eser/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"The Nicaraguan group person nan correct to take their ain leaders done antiauthoritarian elections. The United States calls connected nan world organization to subordinate forces to show to nan Murillo-Ortega dictatorship that it cannot expect to support business arsenic accustomed pinch different nations erstwhile it is thwarting nan basal tenets of our antiauthoritarian hemisphere," Rubio asserted.