The steamroller of Ortega deputies, which controls the National Assembly, unanimously approved this Wednesday the initiative of “Law to Repeal Legislative Decree No. 357 of October 29, 1958” with which it eliminates the Nicaraguan Red Cross, as an autonomous entity; and orders that all the assets of the institution pass into the hands of the Ministry of Health (Minsa), to which it will now be subject.
Ortega’s delegates, in the “statement of reasons” for the initiative presented urgently, accuse the Nicaraguan Red Cross of “attempting the peace and stability” of the country, just for providing medical care to citizens injured during the social protests of 2018, which were repressed by the police, military and paramilitaries who respond to the orders of the presidential couple.
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The State, headed by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, also determines the usurpation of the assets of the beheaded institution. The initiative points out that “all the assets, assets and actions that to date belong to the Nicaraguan Red Cross Association will become property of the State, and will be administered by the Nicaraguan Red Cross, a decentralized entity attached to the Ministry of Health.”
The attack on the humanitarian institution is seen as a low blow for carrying out its work in caring for the wounded. The International Red Cross has sought to develop its humanitarian work in the midst of the social crisis that Nicaragua has been going through since 2018, but the regime has blocked its work.
The dictator Daniel Ortega made official the appointment of Milagros del Carmen Urbina Rocha as the new ambassador of Nicaragua in Colombia, who already served as counselor minister in that diplomatic post since last December 21, 2022.
On her Twitter account, the regime delegate defines herself as a “Rubenian Sandinista diplomat”, alluding to the poet Rubén Darío and her affiliation and defense of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
This Wednesday, the regime also notified through a residential agreement about the cancellation of the appointment of infantry colonel DEM Miriam del Carmen Centeno Mendoza, who held the position of “Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché to the Embassy of the Republic of Nicaragua in the Kingdom of Spain” since October 2020. In his place and since just last May 8, infantry lieutenant colonel DEM Santos Arecio Álvarez Garache was appointed.
Nicaraguans in Costa Rica went to the offices of the House of the Presidency in that country and to the embassies of Panama, Mexico and Colombia to deliver letters demanding support for the delegations so that they do not re-elect Dante Mossi as executive director of the Central American Bank for Integration Economic (CABEI) for considering him an accomplice and financier of totalitarian regimes like Daniel Ortega’s.
In addition, they ask for support so that the disbursements directed to the Nicaraguan dictatorship are suspended, since they state that these funds are used in the continuity of the repression in the Central American nation that has suffered since 2018.
