The “two-headed dictatorship”, as dissidents call the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, rigorously advances the destruction of human rights and freedoms. They insist on suppressing civil society, imprisoning opposition politicians, hunting down the Catholic Church. The Nicaraguan regime has ordered the closure of 100 other national and international NGOs.
In view of all. Like a brutal assault in broad daylight, the regime has so far dissolved 1,269 non-profit civil organizations so far this year. And a total of 2,375 since the popular uprisings of April 2018.
Since then, the regime has taken on the task of further intensifying attacks on personal freedom and integrity, enforced arrests and disappearances, attacks on freedom of expression and association and freedom of the press. . As well as other restrictions on the exercise of civil and political rights.
Of these 100 non-governmental organizations, 51 are international and 49 national. Of the 23 nationals of European countries, 8 come from Italy, 4 from Spain, 2 from Austria, 2 from France, 2 from Denmark. And one from each of the following countries: Germany, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom,
In total, 19 of the 51 canceled NGOs are from the United States, 3 from Canada and 2 from Costa Rica. It also canceled the legal personality of an NGO from Guatemala, one from Panama, one from Puerto Rico and another from Venezuela.
Nicaragua pulverizes NGOs and human rights
The regime claims that the 51 NGOs failed to respect Nicaraguan laws. “For more than 5 to 30 years, the boards of directors of the country of origin did not communicate, nor communicated the update of the power of attorney of the legal representative and the tax financial statements,” they say. Of the total number of illegal international NGOs, 88 have been dissolved in the last 8 days. Among them, 27 from the United States, 10 from Spain, 10 from Italy, 7 from France, 6 from Germany, 4 from Austria and 4 from Canada.
The legal personality of 49 national NGOs has also been cancelled, more than twenty of them from religious associations, mostly evangelical.
In Nicaragua, the Ortega-Murillo regime, with the vote of Sandinista deputies and their allies in the National Assembly, or through the Interior Ministry, banned at least 2,375 local and foreign NGOs, the report reported. ‘agency. Eph.
Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which deepened after the controversial general elections of November 7, 2021. In which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth in a row and second with his wife, Rosario Murillo, as vice president. With a country in conflict, with its main adversaries in prison or in exile and with a tight program of repression and violation of human rights.
In July, in another wave of closures of such organizations, Ambassador Brian A. Nichols, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US State Department, criticized the decision. “Ortega and Murillo’s regime attacks NGOs because it fears they will undermine its power. Thus depriving the Nicaraguan people of vital services such as health, education and others that the government does not provide.
National and international abuses
The Nicaraguan Human Rights Collective Never condemned again. “The goal is to exercise absolute control and silence over society. Also persecute those who think differently and establish a single thought. The human rights of Nicaraguans are being violated,” the group said.
In addition to the arbitrary cancellations, the deputies approved the reform law and the additions to Law 1115, the general law for the regulation and control of non-profit organizations. Among other aspects, it gives the Mingob the power to grant and revoke the legal personality of civil associations. An exclusive, exclusive and non-delegable constitutional attribution of power to the National Assembly.
With this approval, he warned, “the regime operates an unconstitutional concentration of power to simplify procedures and abuses. To the detriment of the human rights of the Nicaraguan people”.
Nicaragua was the main political issue at the 52nd OAS Annual Assembly in Peru.
The relationship between this organization and the Central American nation has become particularly tense since the campaign of repression launched by Ortega against opposition sectors in 2018. A situation that even led Nicaragua to leave the OAS in November 2021. Facts which were later followed by the closure of the office of this organization in Managua and the departure of its representatives from the country.
Persecution and prison
The persecution of political leaders opposed to the ruling party and those who have spoken out against Ortega-Murillo are the most alarming situations for the OAS.
There are currently around 200 prisoners for political reasons, including seven former presidential candidates, journalists and figures such as Bishop Rolando Álvarez.
The resident of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Ricardo Pérez Manrique, expressed before the OAS plenary his great concern about the serious human rights crisis in Nicaragua.
He pointed out that “on October 3, provisional measures were taken ordering the release of 45 people who are suffering cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”. He also mentioned that the Court issued several decisions and declared the State of Nicaragua in contempt before the Inter-American System of Human Rights (IACHR).
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