Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday designated Nicaraguan Vice Minister of the Interior Luis Roberto Cañas Novoa over alleged human rights abuses. Rubio’s designation under Section 7031(c) of the State and Foreign Operations Appropriations Act makes Cañas Novoa, as well as his immediate family, ineligible to enter the United States. The diplomatic move comes nearly eight years after Nicaragua ’s deadly April 2018 crackdown on anti-government protests. In an X post announcing the