The Government of Nicaragua prepares the outlawing of 101 NGOs

MADRID, 26 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) that governs Nicaragua has presented a bill to annul the legal personality of 101 civil organizations, including the Missionaries of Charity Association of the Order of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

The proposal has been presented by deputy Filiberto Rodríguez, who registered a draft decree on June 22 that will be debated in plenary next Tuesday, June 28 in the National Assembly, according to the Nicaraguan press.

The explanatory statement points to the breach of three laws: the Law on Non-Profit Legal Entities (Law 147), the Organic Law of the Legislative Power of the Republic of Nicaragua or Law 606, and the Law Against Money Laundering. , Financing of Terrorism and Financing of the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction or Law 977.

Rodríguez explained that these NGOs have not presented their financial statements, nor have they reported who is on their boards of directors, previous donations from abroad, identity documents of their fund providers, and have not complied with the registration as "agents foreign".

The list includes associations and civil organizations of all kinds: agricultural, environmental, youth support, community development, religious, medical, charity work, human rights or child care.

As for the Missionaries of Charity Association, the publication Aleteia denounced on June 18 that the government closed down the charitable works of said organization after more than forty years of service to the poorest "as part of the intense hunt that The regime has undertaken against the Catholic Church, considering it to be an opponent and a coup plotter," according to Aleteia.

Also on the list are the Missionaries of Charity Association, the Foundation for the Integral Development of the San Juan River, the Labor Mediation Institute Association, the Nicaraguan Association for the Support of Small Farmers, the Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights or the Nicaragua Aid Foundation.

If this initiative is approved, the number of associations and civil organizations closed since November 29, 2018 would be 770.