The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo announced that this coming Thursday, October 20, they are going to “celebrate” the 43rd anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior (Migob) and that “invitations are already circulating” for the event to be held at the Plaza of the Revolution in Managua.
The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior has become the main tool of the dictatorship to persecute, repress and cancel non-governmental organizations that worked on various programs and projects throughout the country.
On August 11, the Ortega-controlled National Assembly approved with 77 votes in favor, a reform and addition to Law 1115, which gave absolute power to the Interior to strip organizations of legal personality through ministerial agreements, without the need to go through the Legislature.
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The number of non-profit foundations and associations outlawed by the regime rises to 2,287 from December 2018 to date.
The dictatorship’s decision was harshly criticized by local and international human rights organizations such as the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The National Police, which is under the command of the Interior, is in charge of maintaining the siege, persecution, harassment, raids and imprisonment of opponents; in addition, to maintain the militarization of the towns of Masaya, Matagalpa and Managua, among others.
The same Police is the one that captures the leaders of the organizations, activists, feminists and any person who dissents from the thoughts or actions of the Ortega and Murillo dictatorship. Police agents have been witnesses in cases against hostages of conscience and are responsible for the torture received by those who are detained in the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ).
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They also repressed social protests and are accused of shooting at protesters in 2018, the death toll rose to 355, as documented by the IACHR.
The Minister of the Interior is María Amelia Coronel Kinloch, a member of the Coronel Kinloch clan who hold diplomatic positions, as advisors in the regime’s ministries. The head of the Migob has served in that position since 2017, but her public career began hand in hand with the return of Sandinismo to power in 2007. From that year until her appointment in the Interior, she was Minister Counselor with consular functions in the Nicaraguan delegation in Panama .
Law 438, Law of Integrity of Public Servants, prohibits and sanctions the practice of nepotism in the State of Nicaragua, but the regime has violated the legal norm by occupying public positions with his own family, relatives and loyal officials. A case of nepotism is that of the Colonel Kinloch clan.
