Venezuelan opponent Julio Borges repudiated this Thursday the expulsion of the Missionaries of Charity of the Mother Teresa Order of Calcutta from Nicaragua, whose association was dissolved by the Government of Daniel Ortega.
“We repudiate that the Daniel Ortega regime expels from Nicaragua missionaries of the order of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. His work in that country was for the benefit of the most vulnerable, serving God and the church, ”said the anti-Chavista in a message on his Twitter account.
The dissolution of the Missionaries of Charity, along with 100 other NGOs in Nicaragua, was approved urgently and without debate on Wednesday, June 29, in Parliament.
The Missionaries of Charity, created on August 16, 1988 during the first Ortega government (1985-1990) after a visit to Nicaragua by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, maintained a nursery, a home for abused or abandoned girls and a nursing home, which began to close on June 15.
According to a report from the General Directorate of Registration and Control of Non-Profit Organizations of the Nicaraguan Ministry of the Interior, the Missionaries of Charity failed to comply with their obligations under the law that regulates them and the Law on Money Laundering, Financing to Terrorism and the Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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In Borges’ opinion, this decision reaffirms the “totalitarian vocation” of Ortega, whose government he compared to that of Nicolás Maduro.
“This only comes to reaffirm the totalitarian vocation of the dictator Ortega, who, like Maduro, wants to control and kidnap the entire society,” he said.
The former parliamentarian urged the international community to agree on actions to “reverse this systematic attack against the people of Nicaragua.”
In Nicaragua, with the vote of the Sandinistas, 858 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have been outlawed, out of more than 6,000 existing ones.
These measures have been promoted by the Government since December 2018, eight months after a popular revolt broke out – caused by controversial social security reforms – described as an attempted coup by President Daniel Ortega.
