The Nicaraguan National Assembly (Parliament), with an official majority, canceled the legal personalities of 25 other Nicaraguan NGOs on Wednesday, bringing to 137 non-profit civil organizations that have been banned since December 2018, at the request of the regime of President Daniel Ortega.
Among the 25 illegal non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are the Luisa Mercado Foundation led by the Nicaraguan writer exiled in Spain Sergio Ramírez Mercado and the Association for the Development of Solentiname, founded in 1982 by the late Trappist poet Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020).
Also the Association Permanent Commission on Human Rights of Nicaragua (CPDH), dedicated to the defense of human rights, and the Nicaraguan Coordinating Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations Working with Children and Adolescents (Codeni).
In addition, the Nicaraguan Association of Engineers and Architects, the Nicaraguan Association of Cinematography, the Association Center for the Training of Working Women, and the Coen Foundation, by businessman Piero Coen.
Likewise, the Centre for Communication and Popular Education Foundation, the Foundation for the Integral Development of Indigenous Women of Sutiaba, the Nicaraguan Academic Association of Legal and Political Sciences, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Nicaraguan Foundation for the Promotion of Democracy, Peace, and Development of Civil society, among others.
With the annulment of these other 25 independent NGOs, the number of local entities that have been outlawed since the socio-political crisis broke out in Nicaragua in April 2018, which left 355 dead, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and which are described as an attempted coup d'état by Ortega.
The decree canceling the legal personalities of the 25 NGOs was approved urgently with the vote of 74 Sandinista deputies and their allies, 15 abstentions, and the rest did not vote, out of the 91 legislators that make up the Parliament.
According to a report by the Ministry of the Interior, these 25 NGOs failed to comply with their obligations, including that they did not register as “foreign agents, being obliged subjects because they received donations from abroad”.
Nor did they report their financial statements with their detailed breakdowns of income, expenditures, trial balance and donation detail (origin, provenance and final beneficiary); nor did their boards of directors.
Among the organizations that have been outlawed are NGOs that defend human rights, medical, feminist, educational, universities, environmentalists, indigenous people, journalists, and centers of thought, among others.
Also the Nicaraguan subsidiary of O Peración Sonrisa, dedicated to carrying out free operations for children with cleft palate or cleft lip.
The Sandinista regime has also canceled the registrations and perpetual issues of four American and six European NGOs.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has been accentuated after the controversial general elections on November 7, 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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