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Nicaragua: the National Assembly canceled another 200 civil organizations and there are already more than a thousand outlawed since 2018
By CNN Spanish
The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved this Thursday a new decree for the cancellation of legal entities of another 100 non-profit civil organizations.
On Wednesday, it had canceled the same number of associations that, according to the parliamentarians, failed to comply with the legislation that regulates them.
The legislative decree was approved with 75 votes in favor of the caucus of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front, no votes against, and with the abstention of 16 parliamentarians from small parties.
With these cancellations, there are already 1,058 organizations declared illegal since December 2018. Only during 2022, 859 organizations went through the same situation, according to the count by CNN and the Efe agency.
Before the approval of the decree, parliamentary directors stated that Franya Urey - director of the Registry and Control of Non-Profit Institutions - sent the president of the National Assembly a report that expresses the non-compliance by the sanctioned organizations of their functions. , as established by the NGO regulatory law, the foreign agents law and the anti-money laundering and terrorist financing law.
According to the report of the Interior, these organisms did not present detailed financial reports according to fiscal periods with income, expenses;
they did not report previous donations, their origin and beneficiaries and did not update information on their board of directors.
The closed agencies, which are focused on the performance of their institutions' closure reports, preferred not to comment.
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 cause the destruction of the social fabric with the aim of concentrating and strengthen his dictatorship.
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Italian President Mattarella rejects Prime Minister Draghi's resignation
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Mario Draghi's resignation, the Italian presidency said in a statement.
Mattarella asked Draghi to address the parliament to assess the political situation.
"The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, received tonight at the Quirinale Palace the Prime Minister, Prof. Mario Draghi, who resigned from the government he headed," the statement said.
“The President of the Republic did not accept the resignation and invited the Prime Minister to appear before the Cortes Generales to make communications, in order to make an assessment of the situation that has arisen as a result of the result of the session held today in the Senate of the Republic could be held in its own forum," he added.
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Colombia: 19 children rescued after landslide that affected a school in Antioquia, at least 3 more students are still missing
A landslide in the municipality of Andes, in Antioquia, Colombia, affected a school this Thursday and it is feared that students have been trapped, the Government reported this Thursday on Twitter.
"A specialized team travels to the scene of the emergency to help students who would be trapped. We activate the hospital network and relief agencies," the Governor's Office explained in the publication.
No injuries have been reported in the incident so far.
In the same social network, President Iván Duque said: "Search and rescue teams are already present in the village of Tapartó, a rural area of ​​the municipality of Andes, Antioquia, to attend to the emergency caused by the landslide on a school. We are constantly monitoring the situation."
2 hours ago
Honduras: The son of former president Porfirio Lobo is assassinated in Tegucigalpa
By Elvin Sandoval
The Honduran authorities began the investigation of the murder of four young people in a massacre that occurred this Thursday in the capital, Tegucigalpa, the spokesman for the Ministry of Security and the National Police Miguel MartĂnez Madrid told CNN.
Among the victims is one of the sons of former President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, identified as Said Lobo Bonilla, 23 years old.
The preliminary reports handled by the police, according to MartĂnez Madrid, is that as yet unidentified subjects lowered the young people from two vehicles minutes after they left a nightclub and killed them.
Former president Porfirio Lobo arrived at the scene of the crime, who told local media that he knew nothing about the massacre and that these are things that hurt since violence is eating away at Honduran society.
The National Police assured MartĂnez Madrid that they are forming a special team to proceed with the investigations and find the whereabouts of those responsible for this bloody act.
In this massacre, a nephew of the retired former general of the Honduran Armed Forces, Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, who was the head of the Armed Forces when the coup d'état was carried out against former President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, was also killed on June 28, 2009. .
Vásquez Velásquez told CNN that the investigative authorities will have to give a response to the families of the victims, capturing those responsible for the bloody act and handing them over to justice, and lamented that crime is gaining the upper hand over the security institutions of the condition.