The delegates of the Condega Women Construction Association (AMCC) denounced the seizure of their facilities, which were used to offer technical courses in that town.
In a statement they point out that their building, located in the department of Estelí, was raided by civilians and workers from the local mayor’s office «On Tuesday, July 11, their old premises built in 1993 were illegally and arbitrarily taken over by a group of community women».
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The entity is part of the 3,000 Non-Governmental Organizations that were stripped of their legal status by the authorities of the State of Nicaragua.
The building was used to house local students and students from other departments who received technical courses taught at the center.
«Personnel from the mayor’s office and the government party FSLN entered the premises violently, breaking the padlocks and doors, looting the premises and then changing the locks.»says the letter.
More buildings assaulted by the dictatorship
In a month the dictatorship has raided three premises, in which their operations were canceled due to the government’s persecution of NGOs.
The Luisa Mercado Foundation, which was taken over on June 30, now functions as an “art school.” The property operated as a cultural organization and was directed by the writer Sergio Ramírez Mercado.
The Xilonem recreation center in Condega was taken over on June 20. The place was raided by police officers. It belongs to the Asociación Pro Recreación Educación y Orientación Juvenil (APROROJ) and now operates under government administration.
“They can paint the façade and change the logo, decorate the walls with their symbols of terror as they have done with many facilities for women’s organizations and others, but it will never be a house of ideals, nor will its new occupants know what it is to belong. to a space beyond what is used »the women of the associations sentence in the letter.
