Dictator Daniel Ortega ordered his political operators who serve as deputies in the National Assembly, and his mosquito-borne collaborators, to eliminate the Emergency Social Investment Fund (FISE) and transfer all its functions to the Nicaraguan Water and Sewer Company (Enacal).
Following orders from Ortega, the Sandinistas in the legislature approved, this Wednesday, August 28, the “Law on the Transfer of Functions of the Emergency Social Investment Fund (FISE) to the Nicaraguan Water and Sewer Company (Enacal).”
The deputies in the service of the Sandinista dictatorship argued that Enacal will carry out the same actions that FISE has carried out in recent years “which is to guarantee that drinking water reaches Nicaraguan families in greater numbers and with better quality,” explained Ortega legislator Jenny Martínez.
The new law repeals Executive Decree 59-90, through which FISE was created during the democratic government of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, to address “emergency” social investment, mainly in rural areas, deeply impoverished during the first Sandinista dictatorship in the 1980s.
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The FISE-Enacal merger will improve the process of “institutional modernization, to increase the efficiency and performance of public institutions,” justifies the initiative sent by Ortega and approved by the deputies in his service.
ENCAL thus becomes the “seamless successor” of FISE. The current expenditure of FISE will henceforth be permanently assigned to ENACAL.
The eternal Sandinista deputy Walmart Gutierrez assured that, from 2015 to 2023, some 3,970.8 million cordobas have been invested in drinking water projects in rural areas.
For her part, Deputy Martínez stated that, with the approved Law, “the actions, technical and administrative facilities are being organized, with the objective of optimizing the programs and projects, in such a way as to address the problems and solutions that families demand in the area of drinking water.”
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He also said that they are working on the design of a single entity under a single direction, which would have among its functions “the processes of collection, production, treatment, conduction, storage and distribution of drinking water and attention to sanitation in rural areas.”
The Ortega deputies assured that the Ortega regime has invested more than 900 million dollars in drinking water and sanitation projects, and has achieved 95.5 percent coverage with drinking water, through new distribution systems.
This is the second social welfare institution that the dictator has eliminated. On July 12, he ordered the disappearance of the Nicaraguan Institute for Municipal Development (Inifom) and transferred its functions to the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), his repressive arm used for confiscations from opponents and NGOs.
Furthermore, the disappearance of this institution occurs in the midst of the so-called restructuring of the State that has already begun with massive layoffs in several institutions.
