The social support organization related to the Catholic Church, Cáritas de León, was forced to request its definitive cancellation before the Ministry of the Interior (Migob) because it could not survive the excessive control of the regime over those organizations.
The repressive method through excessive control and excessive demands for accountability for Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) continues to bear the fruits that the Ortega-Murillo regime seeks: force them to close “voluntarily” or they close them.
The Diocesan Caritas Association of León (Cáritas de León), requested the Migob to cancel its legal personality due to “voluntary dissolution agreed by its members through act number 11 of the Extraordinary Assembly held on December 31, 2022”, according to the resolution. of approval published in the Official Gazette on Monday, May 8.
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The same official publication indicates that the charitable organization was forced to close because it has suffered a “decrease in funds to meet its aims and objectives.”
The instance of social support belonged to the Diocese of León, which is currently administered by Bishop Oscar René Sándigo, a Catholic pastor who is not very critical of the regime, rather he has opted for silence in the face of the repressive wave carried out by the Ortega dictatorship. -Murillo.
Cáritas de León had legal personality since 2014, when it was granted by Decree 7583, published in gazette number 207 of October 31, 2014, and registered in the Migob on November 25 of that same year under perpetual number 6007. .
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The NGO’s cancellation request was based on Article 42, numeral 1 and Article 47, numeral 1, of Law 1115, General Law for the Regulation and Control of Non-Profit Organizations. The same Law that the dictatorship has used to outlaw more than 3,000 NGOs of all kinds, in the midst of an open war against civil society.
According to data contained in a systematization prepared by the Human Rights Collective, Nicaragua Nunca Más, the Fundación del Río and the Fundación Popol Na, until 2018 there were some 7,227 active legal entities of NGOs in the country. The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has already canceled half of all of them.
