The Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior, by order of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, through ministerial agreement 38-2024, approved the cancellation of “1,500 non-profit organizations,” arguing that they were “in violation of the laws that regulate them.”
“1,500 non-profit organizations have failed to comply with their obligations under the regulatory framework, before the General Directorate of Registration and Control of Non-Profit Organizations, since they did not report for periods of between 1 and up to 35 years their financial statements according to fiscal periods, with detailed breakdowns of income and expenses, trial balance, details of donations and their boards of directors,” noted the Ministry of the Interior in the ministerial agreement released this Monday, August 18, in La Gaceta.
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This is unprecedented in Nicaragua and is part of the policy of dismantling civil organizations in Nicaragua, implemented by the Ortega administration in the last six years through the cancellation of the legal status of more than 5,000 non-profit organizations.
More than 500 Catholic and Evangelical NGOs have been cancelled
Most of the NGOs cancelled on Monday were linked to the Catholic and Evangelical Church in Nicaragua, although the list also included several organizations of horse racing, sports, indigenous people, historical ex-combatants, women, producers and businessmen.
Among those who cancelled were the Diocesan Carthage of Granada, the Dental College, the Casa de los Tres Mundos Foundation, the International Council of Evangelical Churches of the Prince of Peace, the Congregation of the Mothers of the Divine Shepherd, the Association of Augustinian Monks and Nuns, the Marian Association of the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Cuapa, the Association of Pentecostal Churches Maranatha Cristo viene, and the Association of Small Producers of San Francisco de Asis.
