The initiative will be discussed on Tuesday in a plenary session by Parliament, which has a majority sympathetic to the dictatorship
< /p>The dictator of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega
The Nicaraguan regime asked Parliament to close the Nicaraguan Academy of Language, an entity with 94 years of existence, pointed out along with 82 other non-profit organizations for breaking the law for not declaring itself a “foreign agent,” according to the agenda. of sessions.
The initiative will be discussed on Tuesday in a plenary session by Parliament, which has a majority related to the dictatorship.
The Nicaraguan Academy of Language, based in Managua, was created in August 1928, and among its prominent members is the writer Sergio Ramírez.
The proposal for cancellation of 83 NGOs, which includes the Academy, was presented by the president of the Justice and Governance Commission, the Sandinista Filiberto Rodríguez, who points out in the statement of reasons that they did not register as “foreign agents”, to what they are required by law.
The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) expressed this Monday its “deep concern about the news of the possible closure” of its Nicaraguan counterpart, “which will cause its disappearance after 94 years of service to the greatest cultural value of the nation ”.
Royal Spanish Academy
With these 83 NGOs increases to more than 200 entities canceled by the government of President Daniel Ortega since 2018, in the context of the crisis triggered by anti-government protests, which left a balance of more than 355 dead and thousands of exiles.
The regime accuses these organizations, including human rights defenders, of using the donations received to try to overthrow his government with the support of the United States.
The 76-year-old president He has been in power since 2007 and won a fourth consecutive term in the November elections, with his rivals imprisoned. in Nicaragua, justice is used as an instrument of a “policy of repression”, against opponents.
According to the report, entitled Analysis of judicial processes. December 2021 – March 2022, at least 66 people were arrested and sentenced in the context of the elections in which Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, were re-elected as president and vice president, respectively .
According to the study, The regime of Ortega and Murillo uses the “Executive Power as an organ of repression and criminalization of opponents, activists, journalists and human rights defenders.”
The Observatory, which belongs to the Nicaraguan Never Again Human Rights Collective, pointed out that, after the reelection announcement, there was an “increase in stigmatization and hostility towards political prisoners, especially after the speech presidential term in which he called them ‘sons of bitches’, so it can be considered an increase in the viciousness towards the more than 181 political prisoners at that time.”
The report highlighted the “lack of autonomy and independence of the Public Ministry”, and described the “Executive Branch as an organ of repression and criminalization of opposition figures, activists, journalists, and human rights defenders (…). The trials against these political prisoners solidify totalitarianism and the submission of this Power to the presidential couple.”
(With information from AFP)