after the protests began in April 2018, Nicaragua’s most widely read newspaper La Prensa’s printing materials were confiscated in January 2019, and numerous journalists were arrested and imprisoned since the protests began, while death threats and other intimidation tactics have forced dozens of journalists to flee the country. (8) In response to corruption and human rights abuses, the United States Department of Treasury has sanctioned six Nicaraguans for corruption and gross violations of human rights. Those sanctioned include the Vice President, who is the wife of corrupt President Daniel Ortega, as well as the former President of the Supreme Electoral Council, the Director of the Nicaraguan National Police, a National Security Advisor to the President, the Political Secretary for the municipality of Managua, and the Treasurer of the Sandinista Party. 3. Sense of congress It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) Nicaragua’s economic, humanitarian, and human rights crisis has resulted in extraordinary and temporary conditions that currently prevent Nicaraguan nationals from safely returning to Nicaragua