The Nicaraguan regime, through the Ministry of the Interior, has ordered the closure of 25 other NGOs, including a journalists' association, an environmentalist and other human rights, indigenous women and human rights defenders, the legislature announced Thursday.
In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega's executive, with the vote of Sandinista deputies and their allies, has banned at least 87 Nicaraguan NGOs since December 2018.
The Ministry of the Interior has also cancelled the registrations and perpetual broadcasts of six American NGOs and six European NGOs.
The National Assembly (Parliament), with an official majority, put the new initiative on Thursday's agenda, so it should be presented to the plenary.
The NGOs are the Operation Smile Association of Nicaragua, the Association of Nicaraguan Journalists Dr. Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal and the ecologist Alexander Von Humboldt Center for the Promotion of Territorial Development and Environmental Management (Humboldt Center).
Also the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation for Reconciliation and Democracy, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (Funides), the Foundation for Civic Ethics and Transparency, the Freedom Foundation and the Vital Voices of Nicaragua Association.
In addition, the Agora Parneships Foundation, the Foundation for the Autonomy and Development of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, the Civil Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Nicaragua, the Harvard Club Association of Nicaragua, the Nicaraguan Foundation for Human Dignity and the Social Club of Matagalpa.
Likewise, the Citizen Crusade for Democracy Foundation, the Kolping-Nicaragua Foundation, the Institute for Observation Foundation for Democracy and Human Rights, the Women's Collective Civil Association on 8 March, the Alumni Scholarship Fund Foundation of the Central America School (FOBECA), the development Local Association of the Fund and Women of Nicaragua .
The others are the Atlantic Coast Centre for Justice and Human Rights Association, the Christian Center for Human Rights Association and the Association Centre for Violence Prevention.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, these 25 NGOs did not provide their financial statements with their detailed breakdowns of income, expenses, trial balance and breakdown of donations (origin, origin and final beneficiary).
In addition, he argued, their boards of directors did not report, which violates the General Law on Non-Profit Legal Entities.
The portfolio therefore proposed to cancel the registration of these 25 NGOs within 72 hours.
The assets and shares belonging to these associations/foundations will be subject to prior liquidation, otherwise they will become the property of the state, in accordance with the initiative.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which intensified after the controversial November 7 general elections, in which Daniel Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president, with his main contenders in prison.
(With information from EFE)
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