The Sor María Romero asylum, which housed 39 elderly people, ceased operations after the cancellation of the legal personality of the Foundation for Nicaraguan Human Dignity, one of the 25 NGOs that the National Assembly closed on March 17, without considering the direct impact on the beneficiaries of the projects they developed.
In a note dated April 6, the asylum administration informed the relatives of the elderly that they would come to pick them up as “as soon as possible, by virtue of the cancellation of legal status decree AN 8793”, published on Wednesday, March 23 in the Official Gazette. CONFIDENTIAL contacted the nursing home management, but they said they are not providing interviews.
According to a report by the digital media Nicaragua Investiga, the Foundation for Nicaraguan Human Dignity —created by former president María Fernanda Flores and now a political prisoner of the Ortega regime— was one of the main donors of the Sor María Romero asylum, whose closure not only affects the elderly, otherwise it leaves 13 people unemployed.
Drinking water projects remain in “limbo” due to the closure of the Humboldt Center
In that same March 2022 publication, the cancellation of the legal personality of the NGO was recently made known, María Lourdes Chacón, administrative manager of the asylum, told Nicaragua Investiga that the “most vulnerable population are the elderly with limited economic resources, and let’s not ignore those who do not have relatives who were picked up from the street, unfortunately all this is very sad, knowing that they would remain in the air, “he said.
This morning, the only thing that Chacón mentioned to CONFIDENTIAL is that no elder was left unprotected.
The nursing home was founded on June 30, 2004 and was located in La Colinas, Managua. Like this asylum, dozens of citizens were affected by the closure of the last 25 civil society organizations, who worked on social service, development, environmental and democracy initiatives.
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In recent weeks, CONFIDENTIAL collected the testimony of residents who were happy to have access to drinking water in their communities thanks to a Centro Humboldt project, but with the closure of the NGO, they were left in limbo, not knowing how to complete the initiative. relatives of children with cleft lip and palate, who benefited from free surgeries through Operation Smile, also do not know what will happen with the treatment of their children, after the dispossession of the legal personality of that organization.
The closure of the asylum, the community members without water and the parents waiting for treatment for their children, are part of the direct effects caused by the closure of these last 25 organizations. However, they are not the only cases, there are more, but both the population and the former directors of the NGO are afraid to speak.
From 2018 to date, the regime has canceled 143 civil society organizations, confiscating the assets of more than ten, including private universities. This practice was legalized with the approval of the new General Law for the Regulation and Control of Non-Profit Organizations (OSFL), approved urgently by the National Assembly on March 31.
