The Government headed by Daniel Ortega cancelled This Thursday Legal status for Save the Children Canada and 168 other associations that functioned as organisms non-profitalthough, unlike other illegalized NGOs, this time did not order the transfer of assets to the Statebringing the number of such organizations dissolved since 2018 to nearly 5,600.
The Executive, through the Ministry of the Interior, explained that it unilaterally closed Save the Children Canada for not having reported its financial statements from 2008 to 2023and for having its board of directors expired on September 7, 2004.
While at The Moravian Church of Nicaraguaanother of the dissolved organisms, The case was brought for not having reported its financial statements between 2018 and 2023 and for having its board of directors expired since January 30, 2019.
With the closure of these 169 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the total number ofaround 5,600 organizations of this type dissolved following popular protests that broke out in April 2018 in the Central American country.
These NGOs were cancelled a week later that the National Assembly (Parliament), at the request of the Executivewill reform three laws that change the way non-profit organizations operate, that they will have now that form “alliances” with state institutions to execute their projects; 11 days after they outlawed 1,500 NGOs in a single act.
The dissolution of these 169 organizations was approved by the Minister of the Interior, María Amelia Coronel, according to a ministerial agreement published in the Official Gazette La Gaceta de Nicaragua.
The government did not comment on the assets of the organizations
In general, the Interior portfolio outlawed these 169 NGOs for failing to comply with the laws that regulate them, since they did not report for periods of between two and 30 years its financial statements as fiscal periods, with detailed breakdowns of income and expenses, trial balance, details of donations and their boards of directors, held.
On this occasion, the Ministry of the Interior did not comment on the assets of the organizations. Previously I reported that it was up to the Attorney General’s Office to do so. Republic to transfer the movable or immovable assets of the cancelled NGOs to the name of the State of Nicaragua.
Some Sandinista deputies, such as Filiberto Rodríguez, have said that The NGOs affected since 2018 used resources from the donations they received to try to overthrow the president, Daniel Ortega, in the demonstrations six years ago.
The Sandinistas also argued that the illegalization of these NGOs is part of a process of ordering because not all of the 7,227 that were registered in Nicaragua until 2018 were operating.
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Nicaragua has been experiencing a political and social crisis since April 2018, which was accentuated after the controversial elections of November 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term – the fourth consecutive – with his main opponents in prison and then expelled them from the country, depriving them of their nationality and political rights after accusing them of being “coup plotters” and “treason.”