Daniel Ortega’s regime dismantled 15 other NGOs and there are 49 outlaws in Nicaragua

The Nicaraguan National Assembly on Thursday annulled the legal personality of 15 other NGOs, 49 local entities have been banned since the socio-political crisis erupted in the country in April 2018.

Among the 15 NGOs banned, at the request of the Nicaraguan regime, through the Ministry of the Interior, is the Mejía Godoy Foundation, by Nicaraguan singer-songwriters Carlos and Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy.

The decree of annulment of the legal figures of the 15 NGOs has been approved with the vote of 70 Sandinista deputies and their allies, for one who voted against and 13 others abstained, from the 92 legislators that make up Parliament.

In a report, The Interior Ministry argued that these 15 NGOs had failed to meet their legal and statutory obligations, failing to report their financial statements between 2006 and 2020 with their detailed breakdowns.

They also did not present the agreements with their donors on their projects and activities, nor the identity documents of their donors, and income support, the good reputation of its beneficiaries and associated organizations, among others, according to the information.

During the debate, native deputy Brooklyn Rivera defended the Christian Medical Action organization, which, he explained, is the only NGO (now banned) present in vulnerable areas of the northern Caribbean of Nicaragua, inhabited mainly by the indigenous Miskito people, after that region was hit by a hurricane.

“We abide by the same laws that we passed. It is the reflection that remains “declared, for his part, the head of Parliament, the Sandinista Gustavo Porras.

The list of NGOs

Among the entities concerned is the Mejía Godoy Foundation, owned by the Mejía Godoy brothers, who recently described the regime led by Sandinista Daniel Ortega as a “totalitarian, neo-Stalinist and neo-Hitler regime”, after criticizing an executive decree that asks other states or international organizations to seek their consent in advance if they wish to award a prize or recognition to a citizen of this Central American country.

Other banned NGOs are the Nicaraguan Institute for Popular Research and Education, the Nicaraguan Soy Association, Christian Medical Action, the Collective Association of Women of Matagalpa, the Association of the Central American Institute for Social Integration and Association Center for Studies for Governance and Democracy.

Also the Federation of Nicaraguan Non-Governmental Organizations, the Diakonia Nicaragua Foundation, the Entre Volcanes Foundation, the Nicaraguan Medical Foundation Dra. Concepción Palacios, the Xochiquetzal Foundation, the Association for Research and the Institute of Social Management (Inges), the Association of Jalapa Women Against Oyanka Violence and Federation of the Nicaraguan Network for Democracy and Local Development.

In Nicaragua, the Executive of Daniel Ortega, with the vote of the Sandinista deputies and their allies, banned at least 49 NGOs since December 2018, the previous 24 NGOs, most of them medical, on July 28.

On August 15, the Interior Ministry canceled the records and perpetual numbers of three NGOs Americans and three European.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened in the face of the legislative elections of November 7. in which President Ortega aspires to his fifth presidential term, the fourth in a row and the second with his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo.

(With information from EFE)

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