In just three days the dictatorship ordered the dissolution of almost 180 organizations defending human rights
Daniel Ortega’s regime ordered the closure of the NGO run by his stepdaughter and 95 other associations
The Nicaraguan regime, through the Ministry of the Interior, ordered the closure of another 96 local NGOs, including the Center for International Studies Foundation (CEI) headed by Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo -stepdaughter of the country’s dictator, Daniel Ortega and whom he denounced in 1998 for sexual abuse-, for not registering as “foreign agents”.
This Wednesday, the Executive also instructed the National Assembly (Parliament), controlled by the Sandinistas, to outlaw the Nicaraguan Development Institute (INDE), the social arm of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), the country’s main employer leadership. .
In addition, to the Federation of Professional Associations of Nicaragua (Conapro), also from Cosep, which before the crisis that broke out in April 2018 maintained a consensus dialogue with Ortega, who has been in power since 2007.
The portfolio of the Interior also asked Parliament to dissolve and cancel the legal status of the Nicaraguan Pediatric Society Association, the Nicaraguan Internet Association, the La Cuculmeca Education and Communication Association, and the Esquipulas Foundation, among others.
In just three days, the dictatorship has ordered the dissolution of almost 180 organizations defending human rights
FOR NOT REGISTERING AS “FOREIGN AGENTS”
In a report, this Ministry argued that these NGOs have failed to comply by not registering “in the register of Foreign Agents, being these obligated subjects, in accordance with the Law Regulating Foreign Agents”, approved by the Sandinistas after the anti-government demonstrations that broke out in April 2018.
In addition, according to the Government, these NGOs have violated the General Law for the Regulation and Control of Non-Profit Organizations, in force since last May 6; as well as the Law Against Money Laundering.
With these new 96 associations, whose initiative was urgently sent to Parliament, the number of Non-Governmental Organizations rises to 179 ( NGO) dissolved in the last three days, including the Nicaraguan Academy of Language.
In Nicaragua, with the vote of the Sandinista deputies and their allies, who are the majority in Parliament, the personality has been canceled At least 344 NGOs have received legal protection since December 2018, eight months after the popular revolt -originated by controversial social security reforms- broke out, described as an attempted coup by Ortega.
< p class=”paragraph”>Sandinista deputy Filiberto Rodríguez, promoter of the initiatives, has maintained that the affected NGOs used resources from the donations they received to try to overthrow Ortega, although he has not presented evidence.
ORTEGA AUTHORIZED HER STEP-DAUGHTER’S NGO
In the new list, the Ministry of the Interior proposed to Parliament to cancel the legal personality of the CEI, of which Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, Ortega’s stepdaughter and daughter of his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, was vice president and executive director.
Ortega’s stepdaughter, who in August 1998 accused the dictator of having raped her constantly since she was 9 years old, a case that was filed in 2001 by the justice Alleging that it had prescribed, she fled into exile in Costa Rica after considering herself persecuted by the Nicaraguan State.
The Managua regime , proposed to Parliament to cancel the legal personality of the CEI, of which Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, Ortega’s stepdaughter and daughter of his wife
The CEI was created on March 9, 1990 during the transition period of the first Sandinista regime (1979-1990), before the notarial documents of Luis Ezequiel Alvarado Ramírez, who was Nicaraguan ambassador to the OAS until October 27 of the year past.
On March 24, 1990, Parliament, then controlled by the Sandinistas, approved the decree that granted legal personality to the CEI, 31 days before Ortega handed over the power to former president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (1990-1997).
This foundation began operating legally on April 3, 1990 after the current president published the decree in the Diario Official La Gaceta.
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 re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second together with his husband a, Murillo, as vice president, with her main contenders in prison.
(With information from EFE)