The crusade of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against non-profit organizations continued this Thursday, June 30 with the cancellation of 100 organizationsby the National Assembly. In this way, the Sandinista guillotine closed, the first half of 2022, with 796 illegal NGOs. Since the end of 2018, the dictatorship has annulled 870 Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs).
The legislative decree for the cancellation of legal status —presented by Sandinista deputy Filiberto Rodríguez— was approved with 75 votes from the Sandinista Front caucus, while the other 16 deputies —from collaborationist parties— abstained.
The cancellation of the organizations has been carried out in two ways. The main one has been through the National Assembly, dominated by the Sandinista Front, where a series of legislative decrees have been approved to cancel legal status. The second route has been through the Ministry of the Interior (Migob), where the records of the organizations were cancelled.
Prior to the cancellation of this hundred NGOs, the president of the National Assemblythe sanctioned deputy Gustavo Porras, pointed out that only in Parliament have been canceled 689 entities that, he valued, were “addled”, for which he urged the legislators to continue “with this cleaning work”.
“There are a number of associations, foundations that have been up to ten years without having their obligations up to date,” warned Porras. “All the organizations that have had their legal status canceled is due to repeated breach of their obligations, year after year. Some with ten years of not updating their boards of directors, others for violating their statutes, others because they were only formed and that is how they remained, ”he justified.
The deputy indicated that “we are going to continue doing this (the cancellations),” because “we cannot have 6,000 legal entities that are going around there without being used.” All legal entities are being reviewed, “that is why they come in these installments.” In the Migob “they are identifying them, in some cases they talk with the directors and some have asked for an extension and it has been given to them,” he commented.
End organized civil society
The Collective of Human rights Nicaragua Never Again condemned “the arbitrary cancellation” of the legal entities of non-governmental organizations and valued that with this measure the National Assembly intends to exercise “absolute control and silence society; persecute those who think differently and establish a single thought, violating the human rights of the Nicaraguan people.”
For human rights defenders, the regime’s threat to close more organizations through the executing arm of the National Assembly and the Ministry of the Interior, “constitutes the continuation of the massacre of rights and the elimination of all forms of civic space” of the government. Nicaraguan people.
“We denounce the systematic repression that the regime promotes against civil society organizations whose right to freedom of association, political participation, legal and due process, as well as the contribution to the development of Nicaragua, are violated,” the defenders said.
Organisms canceled
Among the canceled organizations, the Venancia Group Civil Association, the War Veterans Foundation for Reconciliation, Peace and Development stand out; National Association of Geologists and Related Professionals, Foundation for Municipal Development and Promotion and the Foundation for Attention to Labor Migrations.
Others on the canceled list are the Nicaraguan Unity, Peace and Development Foundation, the Foundation for the Social Development of Communities, the Association of University Students and Professionals, the Save a Child Association, the Association for the Cultural Development of Camino and the Association for Technical Training and Integration. Social.
In addition, the Association for European Integration Studies in Central America, Esa Central America, the Christian Association to Integrally Promote the Human Being and Fight Poverty, the Foundation for Integral and Democratic Development, the Renacer Association, the Center for the Promotion of Integral Rehabilitation Foundation, Association Organization for the Claims for the Barefoot and Hope Against Poverty Association, among many others.
