COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/1974 of 29 September 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1716 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Nicaragua ANNEX

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1716 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 September 2025.

For the Council

The President

M. BØDSKOV

(1)

OJ L 262, 15.10.2019, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/1716/oj.

ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1716, under the heading ‘A. Natural persons referred to in Article 2’, entries 7 and 9 are replaced by the following:

Name

Identifying information

Reasons

Date of listing

‘7.

Rosario María MURILLO ZAMBRANA

Alias: Rosario María MURILLO DE ORTEGA

Position(s): Co-President of the Republic of Nicaragua (since February 2025, previously Vice President, since 2017). Wife of President Daniel Ortega

Date of birth: 22 June 1951

Place of birth: Managua, Nicaragua

Gender: female

Nationality: Nicaraguan

Passport number: A00000106 (Nicaragua)

Co-President of Nicaragua since February 2025, First Lady of Nicaragua and a leader of the Sandinista Youth. Vice President of Nicaragua from January 2017 to February 2025. She played an instrumental role in encouraging and justifying the repression of opposition demonstrations by the Nicaraguan National Police in 2018. In June 2021, she publicly threatened the Nicaraguan opposition and discredited independent journalists. Those threats have been repeated since then. In February 2023, Daniel Ortega revealed that Rosario María Murillo Zambrana is the instigator of new repressions, namely related to the expulsion and deprivation of citizenship of 222 political prisoners.

She is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations, for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, and for undermining democracy in Nicaragua.

2.8.2021

Juan Antonio VALLE VALLE

Position(s): Leader in Nicaraguan National Police

Rank: General/Senior Commissioner

Date of birth: 4 May 1963

Place of birth: Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Gender: male

Nationality: Nicaraguan

As leader in the rank of senior commissioner (second highest rank) of the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) and until February 2025 in a leading position in the police in Managua, Juan Antonio Valle Valle is responsible for repeated acts of police brutality and the excessive use of force which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, for arbitrary arrests and detentions, for violations of freedom of expression and for preventing demonstrations against the government.

He is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations and for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Nicaragua.

2.8.2021’

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/1974/oj

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