The Matagalpa Women’s Collective denounced that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), took over the buildings of the canceled María Cavalleri Foundation.
The confiscation of the properties of said Foundation was consummated this Friday, May 19, when men identified with PGR T-shirts and three more people in civilian clothes appeared at the site, supposedly drawing a sketch of the facilities and identifying them on maps.
“They left the property without giving further explanations for what. Today, May 20, in the morning, the property was raided by police and civilians,” the organization explains in the official note.
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“Today they appropriate a legal property that benefits all people and the environment, it is a violation of our Body – Territory, of our rights to be and exist in a coherent and harmonious way,” he adds.
In addition, they explain that this confiscation is a “violation of the contribution of building collectively for the benefit of all people and of this territory-country.”
Cancellation of legal personality
The steamroller of Ortega deputies approved on June 2, 2022 the cancellation of the organization’s legal personality. The Matagalpa Women’s Collective assures that the closure took place under “false arguments.”
He affirms that the community “can bear witness to how, for 20 years when the María Cavalleri Foundation was created, it has been a space for caring for the earth and nature, for meetings and care between people, for cultural exchange, promotion of education and creativity with a training center, library, a place open to any person and group”.
After its closure, the Foundation, through a release, argued that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo “wants to bury freedom, rights, people, good things. They want to bury us and they don’t know that we are seeds».
The entity was created with the inheritance left by the Italian María Cavalleri, a lover of nature, good food, meetings and education and a nurse who contributed a lot to the health of Nicaraguan women. Cavalleri worked as a volunteer in the country during the 1980s and 1990s.
