The Nicaraguan regime, through the Ministry of the Interior, ordered this Wednesday the closure of 51 international NGOs, including 23 from European countries, mainly Italy and Spain, and 19 from the United States.
A total of 19 of the 51 canceled NGOs are from the United States, 8 from Italy, 4 from Spain, 3 from Canada, 2 from Austria, 2 from France, 2 from Denmark, 2 from Costa Rica, and one each from Germany. , Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, in accordance with the resolution of the Ministry of the Interior published in the Official Gazette.
An NGO from Guatemala, one from Panama, one from Puerto Rico and another from Venezuela were also dissolved.
The regime’s Interior portfolio maintained that the 51 NGOs failed to comply with their obligations under Nicaraguan Law, “because they did not report for more than 5 to 30 years boards of directors of the country of origin, update of the power of the legal representative, and financial statements according to fiscal periods”.
With these 51 outlawed international NGOs, there are 88 that have been dissolved in the last eight days, including 27 from the US, 10 from Spain, 10 from Italy, 7 from France, 6 from Germany, 4 from Austria and 4 from Canada.
LOCAL NGOs
The Ministry of the Interior also canceled this Wednesday the legal personality of 49 national NGOs, including more than twenty religious associations, most of them evangelical.
In Nicaragua, the regime of Daniel Ortega, with the vote of the Sandinista deputies and their allies in the National Assembly, or through the Ministry of the Interior, have outlawed at least 2,375 Nicaraguan and foreign NGOs since December 2018.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has worsened after the controversial general elections on November 7, in which Ortega was fraudulently re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second together with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with her main contenders in prison or in exile.
Ortega, close to turning 77, has been in power for 15 years and 9 consecutive months, amid allegations of authoritarianism and electoral fraud.
ASK TO RESTORE THE RIGHTS
The Organization of American States (OAS) asked the Nicaraguan regime this Friday to “cease all violent action” against the population of its country and to “fully restore civic and political rights, religious freedoms and the rule of law” in its territory.
These terms were included in a “Resolution on the political and human rights crisis in Nicaragua,” which was approved by acclamation before the closing of the LII General Assembly of the OAS, held in Lima.
The resolution also called for an “end to judicial, administrative and other intimidation and harassment” against journalists, especially women, “and against the media and non-governmental organizations.”
It also demanded that the regime of Daniel Ortega “guarantee the physical, mental, and moral integrity, freedom, and right to life of all those who have been arbitrarily detained,” and to release “immediately all political prisoners, in compliance with the decisions and recommendations of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.”
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