The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Ministry of the Interior (Migob), canceled another hundred Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) this week, bringing the illegal NGOs to 1,706 so far in 2022. In total, they have canceled 1780 organizations, since the end of 2018.
Among the canceled organizations for the Migob are the Association of United Pediatricians for the Health of Children of Nicaragua, the Association of Retirees of Nicaragua, the Association for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights to Guarantee Life, Peace and Citizenship, the Association Alimenta los Niños, Fundación Let’s work for Nicaragua and the Union of Coffee Growers of Nicaragua.
The cancellation of the organizations, ordered by the Minister of the Interior, Maria Amelia Colonel Kinloch, is justified with the same argument that the National Assembly has been using in recent months. The organizations allegedly “have failed to comply with their obligations under the law,” since “for more than four to 28 years they did not report” their boards of directors, their financial statements, as well as “the identity and origin of all their members and donors.”
With the reform to Law 1115 or the Regulation and Control of Non-Profit Organizations, approved last August, the range of organizations regulated by the Migob was expanded and this ministry was granted “the power to authorize, regulate, functioning, dissolution, liquidation and cancellation of NPOs, national and other nationalitiesthrough (a simple) Ministerial Agreement”.
The new list of affected NGOs includes the Nicaraguan Academy of Dermatology Association, the Foundation for the Development of Tourism, the Foundation for the Development of Science and Technology, the Nicaraguan War Veterans Association, the Las Malinches Association, the Nicaraguan Rotarians Association for Community Development and the Roberto Terán Foundation.
Others canceled were the Foundation for the Development of Resources of Nicaragua, the Carnival Association of Nicaragua Alegría por la Vida, the Association of the Economic and Social Development Agency of León, the National Association of Former Political Prisoners of Nicaragua, the Association of Collective Initiatives for a Culture of Peace, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Change, among others.
