Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega closes another 169 NGOs among them Save the Children branch

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega dealt a new blow to civil society yesterday, Thursday, by closing down 169 more non-governmental organizations, including a branch of Save the Children, according to a decision published in the government’s official newspaper, La Gaceta . The interior ministry ordered the “cancellation of the legal status and registration of 169 non-profit organizations due to non-compliance with the law,” the ruling said. The organizations shut down by authorities also include some ninety evangelical Protestant churches and organizations, about 40 livestock associations, an association of retired university students and a cancer and AIDS foundation. Based on the current legislation, the resources of these organizations will pass into the hands of the state. The closure of the 169 organizations brings to nearly 5,500 the number of NGOs the Ortega government has decided to ban since 2018, when anti-government protests and riots erupted in which more than 300 people died, according to the United Nations. […]
Source: News Beast

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