The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered the Minister of the Interior, Amelia Coronel Kinloch, to cancel the Association of Demobilized Patriotic Military Service (ADESMIP), the Association of Combatants and Historical Collaborators of the Sandinista Revolution (ASOCOHRS) and the Association of the Demobilized and Fallen of the Patriotic Military Service in the Autonomous Region of the North Atlantic (ADEC SEMPRAAN) in a new round of sanctions against freedom of association and NGOs.
According to two ministerial agreements of the Interior, published this Friday, December 9, in La Gaceta No. 231, these three associations and another 97 NGOs, including nine foreign ones, failed to comply with the country’s laws, such as the Law Against Money Laundering and the Law General Regulation and Control of Non-Profit Organizations.
Related news: 43% of registered NGOs in Nicaragua have been dissolved since 2018
At least 3,106 NGOs out of the 7,227 that were registered in Nicaragua until 2018 have been dissolved by order of Daniel Ortega, according to a report presented last Tuesday, December 6, by the organizations affected by the authoritarian drift of the dictatorship.
“We have a restriction of 43% of the civic space that existed before 2018” in Nicaragua, said the environmentalist Amaru Ruiz, director of the Fundación del Río, one of the NGOs that was outlawed by the National Assembly at the request of the Ministry of the Interior.
Sandinista deputies such as Filiberto Rodríguez have said that the affected NGOs used resources from the donations they received to try to overthrow President Ortega in the demonstrations that broke out in April 2018.
Thousands of Nicaraguans took to the streets to protest controversial social security reforms, which later turned into a demand for Ortega’s resignation as he responded with force.
According to the study, prepared by the Local Network, the Nicaraguan Platform of NGO Networks, the Popol Na Foundation, the River Foundation and the Nicaraguan Nunca Más Human Rights Collective, as of February of this year “the worst wave of cancellations of personalities was unleashed. legal, with data that astonishes even the United Nations Rapporteur for Freedom of Association».
