Nicaraguan government attacks civil organizations 2:27
(CNN Spanish) --
Through a decree and in two consecutive parliamentary sessions, the Nicaraguan National Assembly canceled another 191 civil society organizations.
93 organizations were canceled this Wednesday and another 98, this Thursday.
In both sessions, the Assembly approved its decision with the favorable vote of 74 deputies from the Sandinista caucus and the abstention of 16 legislators.
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The Nicaraguan parliamentary channel reported this Wednesday on its social networks that the reason for the cancellations is the alleged "non-compliance with laws and regulations that govern them before the Ministry of the Interior."
As in previous decrees outlawing civil organizations, the General Directorate of Registration and Control of Non-Profit Organisms, which is part of the Ministry of the Interior, points out organizations for failing to comply with their obligations under the Foreign Agents Law. and the law against money laundering.
Until this Thursday, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Assembly have already canceled more than 500 mostly national organizations that carried out their work in various departments of the country.
The arguments for the closure are inconsistencies in its financial statements, not reporting donations and their recipients in detail, and omitting data on the members of its boards of directors.
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The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) pointed out in a statement on June 1 that the massive cancellation of civil organizations was due to the fact that the government "intends to dismantle Nicaraguan society and provoke the destruction of the social fabric with the aim of concentrating and strengthen his dictatorship.
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