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Productive meeting with Managua Chargé d'Affaires Elias Baumann to determine next steps on the Murillo-Ortega dictatorship's rejection of U.S. Ambassador-designate Natasha Franceschi. We agreed that hostile political theater aimed at undermining U.S. representation is adversarial and another example of the dictators prioritizing themselves over the real needs of the Nicaraguan people.