The former president of the Nicaraguan National Chamber of Tourism (Canatur) Lucy Valentine He described as a process of “Talibanization of the dictatorship” the cancellation of the legal personality of that business institution, as well as 17 others that were members of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep).
Through her Twitter account, the businesswoman pointed out that “the cancellation – carried out this Monday, March 6 – of the legal personality of Canatur and all the unions was a matter of time.”
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He emphasized that the Ortega regime “feels cornered and its response is to destroy.” At the same time, he stressed that throughout its founding “Canatur has made history in the country’s tourism and they will not be able to erase that. Will follow!””.
Valenti, who for several years was in charge of that chamber, left Nicaragua on October 22, the same day that the Ortega Police arrested the former president and vice president of Cosep, Michael Healy and Álvaro Vargas, respectively; whom he accused and convicted of “conspiracy and money laundering”, to later banish them from the country.
Article 66 tried to find out the opinion of the current president of Canatur, Carlos Werner Schütze, however, he claimed that for the moment he was attending to a situation, that he would establish communication in the next few hours.
According to ministerial agreements 26-2023-OSFL and 27-2023-OSFL of the Ministry of the Interior (Migob), published in The Gazette No. 41, the NGOs “did not complete the registration validation process; presenting inconsistencies in the information.
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Among the alleged anomalies, Migob justified “heading Cosep and 18 of its chambers is that they presented variations in unjustified accounts, differences in balances without support in accounts, they do not report details of income and expenses, “with these actions these organizations do not promote transparency policies in the administration and management of its funds; Likewise, they have not reported financial statements for the fiscal period 2022 », he points out.
Under these same arguments, the dictatorship has used hundreds of non-governmental organizations to strip them of their legal personalities, as well as seize their assets.
A source linked to the private sector told on condition of anonymity Article 66 that “anything that is outside or at the margin of the regime’s activity is a matter that must be affected because they need to have absolute control of the economic, cultural, social, academic sphere, among others.”
“The current Cosep administration sinned because it thought that by being silent, doing its economic activity regularly, the Ortega regime would not affect it, but the truth is that the businessmen were wrong, because for the Sandinista Front, everything That it smells of the private sector and in general of what participated in the social protests of 2018 is treasonous,” he remarked.
List of headless cameras
Those are the chambers and associations stripped of their legal personality, published in the official Gazette of Nicaragua:
- Mining Chamber Association of Nicaragua (Caminic
- Nicaraguan Association of the Textile and Clothing Industry (Anitec)
- Chamber of Developers of Nicaragua (Cadur)
- Nicaraguan Chamber of Construction
- Nicaraguan Chamber of Fisheries Association (Capenic)
- Nicaraguan Coffee Exporters Association (Excan)
- Nicaraguan Association of Formulators and Distributors of Agrochemicals (Anifoda)
- Microfinance Chamber (Asomif)
- Nicaraguan Energy Chamber (CEN)
- Union Association of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (UPANIC)
- Chamber of Commerce and Services of Nicaragua
- Chamber of Industries of Nicaragua (Cadin)
- Association of Producers and Exporters of Nicaragua (Apen)
- National Association of Poultry Farmers and Food Producers (Anapa)
- Nicaraguan Association of Motor Vehicle Distributors (Andiva)
- Nicaraguan Association of Pharmaceutical Products Distributors (Andiprofa)
- National Chamber of Tourism of Nicaragua (Canatur)
- Chamber of Producers and Processors of African Palm (Capropalma)
- Association of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep)
Since 2018, relations between the private company and the Government of Daniel Ortega have broken, after Cosep disagreed with the repression against Nicaraguans, which unleashed a persecution against some businessmen whom it imprisoned and exiled.
