US President Joe Biden confirmed that he has “great confidence” in the US ambassador appointed to Nicaragua after he was rejected by the government of its President Daniel Ortega.

And U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said yesterday Saturday that “Hugo Rodriguez (Ambassador Designate) continues to enjoy the President’s full confidence,” stressing that “during the Senate hearing, Rodriguez accurately reflected the bipartisan political positions in the United States.”

And on Friday, the Nicaraguan government announced that it would “not accept new US Ambassador Rodriguez because of his interventionist stance.”

“Hugo Rodriguez, we repeat, will not be admitted to Nicaragua under any circumstances, let these imperialist gentlemen take it for granted that Hugo Rodriguez will not enter here,” said Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Moro.

Rodriguez, who called Ortega’s government a “dictatorship”, called during a US Senate hearing to “exclude Nicaragua from the Free Trade Agreement between Central America, the Dominican Republic and the United States.”