The regime of Daniel Ortega, through the Ministry of the Interior, requested the cancellation of the legal personality of another 101 non-governmental organizations, including the Missionaries of Charity Association of the Order of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
In the case of the Missionaries of Charity Association, the Aleteia publication denounced on June 18 that the Ortega regime closed the charitable works of said organization after more than forty years of service to the poorest.
“As part of the intense hunt that the regime has undertaken against the Catholic Church —considering it to be in opposition and a coup plotter—, and against organized civil society, the charity works of the Missionaries were closed. And, most likely, she has finished her stay in Nicaragua », said Aleteia.
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According to the legislative decree, the cancellation of these organizations is scheduled to be discussed by the deputies next Tuesday, June 28, in the chamber of the National Assembly.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) held a supervisory hearing on ten precautionary measures for political prisoners in Nicaragua. The reports presented by various human rights organizations indicate that, to date, the State has not complied with the requirements of the commission: 44 of the 60 beneficiaries continue to be deprived of liberty for political reasons; They continue without access to medicines and timely medical care, despite suffering from chronic illnesses and at least nine inmates are in maximum security cells in the Tipitapa prison.
The organization Amnesty International warned that the regime of Daniel Ortega has “intensified its tactics of repression with a wave of arrests” since May 2021, at the gates of the presidential elections. Within the framework of the International Day of Support for Victims of Torture, the human rights organization indicated that the regime responded with “unprecedented measures” against opponents, beginning with the 2018 political crisis.
The situation has forced more than 100,000 Nicaraguans to leave the country to flee repression, after suffering police harassment, smear campaigns and threats. Amnesty International also denounced that the more than 100 detainees are in precarious conditions, suffer ill-treatment and are held incommunicado.
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The Prosecutor’s Office will present more alleged evidence against the priest Manuel Salvador Garcia, after the alleged victim accepted that the religious did not hit her intentionally. The newspaper La Prensa revealed that the case will be in charge of a new judge, Ana Fonseca Laguna, who accepted that the Prosecutor’s Office expand the evidence and, in turn, scheduled the start of the trial for July 1. The pastor of the El Calvario church has already been sentenced to two years in prison, after five people denounced him for the alleged crime of threatening with a weapon.
In this regard, the human rights defender Yonarqui Martínez questioned the prosecutors for not following the procedure according to the law. She, through her Twitter account, asked that “if there are reliable indications (such as) the testimony of the victim who denies the facts and, by the way, they prosecute her for false testimony, what is the reason for imprisoning the father?”
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) officially seized the old offices of the Maria Elena Cuadra Women’s Movement under the pretext of turning the place into a health center. Although the feminist organization had donated the facilities to the Teletón Foundation, the regime turned it into the “Dra. Erlinda López”, which was adorned with photos of the dictatorial couple and other party figures.
According to the regime, the center will serve the specialties of pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, among others, and will benefit more than 60,000 inhabitants of the area, although it only delegated a doctor, a nurse and an assistant in the place.
Various opposition organizations called on the member countries of the Central American Integration System (SICA) not to allow a representative of the regime to assume the General Secretariat of that organization. The Nicaraguans’ demand comes after the Central American foreign ministers gave the “go-ahead” to Werner Vargas to occupy the high position, after several attempts by Ortega to place his best-known officials in the chair.
The opposition stated that it is “unacceptable” that representation be handed over to an “illegitimate government accused of crimes against humanity,” which does not coincide with the democratic principles of the countries of the region.
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Although the position corresponds to Nicaragua and the foreign ministers insist on electing a candidate to reactivate international cooperation, the opponents added that this would be “a slap in the face” to the European countries that are the main cooperators of SICA, and suggested “appointing to an interim administrator” until there are legitimate elections in the country.
