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The Nicaraguan government is shutting down another 25 non-governmental organizations, and the number of illegal ones rises to 3,273.

  • February 24, 2023
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Government Nicaragua, through the Ministry of the Interior, canceled the legal entities of 25 more NGOs this Friday, including five that demanded their voluntary dissolution, including the Russo-Nicaraguan

Government Nicaragua, through the Ministry of the Interior, canceled the legal entities of 25 more NGOs this Friday, including five that demanded their voluntary dissolution, including the Russo-Nicaraguan alliance, which has been inactive since 2017.

The ban on these 25 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was approved by the Minister of the Interior of this country, Maria Amelia Coronel, according to the ministerial agreement published in the official newspaper La Gaceta, Nicaragua.

With the closure of these 25 NGOs 3273 organizations of this type were liquidated. after mass protests broke out in April 2018.

In general, the Ministry of Internal Affairs. claimed that he unilaterally closed 20 NGOs “for being abandoned and having 2 to 15 years of non-compliance their obligations under the laws which govern them.

Among those affected is the Abandoned Children’s Foundation of Nicaragua, which has been in operation since 2001, which, according to the Ministry of the Interior, has not submitted its financial statements for the period 2020-2021, and the term of its board of directors has expired for a year.

Also the SOS Guardians of Children (FUGDI), which has been in operation since 1995 and which “did not file financial statements for the period from 2019 to 2021”, and whose term of office expired last December.

In addition, the Association for Helping Children in Danger, the Department of Carazo, the Association of Veterans of the Carazo War, the Association of Pensioners and Contributors to the Nicaraguan Welfare Regime, the Association of Peasants for a New Hope, the Association for Social Development, the Linda Humanitarian Aid Medical Brigade Fund and others.

On the other hand, the NGOs that demanded their voluntary dissolution are the Association for the Promotion of the Development of the Russian Language and Culture in Nicaragua “Russian-Nicaraguan Alliance”, the SOS Veterinary Foundation, the Alberto and Berta Chamorro Foundation, the Foundation for Sustainable Human Development and Mildred Abaunza Nicaraguan Association of Social workers.

deputies Sandinistas such as Filiberto Rodríguez said the affected NGOs used resources from the donations they received to try to overthrow the president. Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, at the demonstrations that broke out in April 2018.

Thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets in April 2018 to protest controversial welfare reforms that would later became a demand for Ortega’s resignation because he responded with force.

There are few protests left. 355 deadaccording to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), although Nicaraguan organizations raise the figure to 684 and the Ortega government recognizes “over 300”.

The Sandinistas also argued that the illegalization of these NGOs is part of the ordering process because not all of the 7,227 registered in Nicaragua before 2018 were active.

Since then, Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis, which was exacerbated by the controversial general election on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, a fourth in a row, and a second, along with his wife, Rosario Murillo. , as Vice President, with her main rivals in prison or in exile.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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