(ZENIT News / Managua, 23.01.2025).- On January 8 “La Gaceta,” the official publication of the Nicaraguan Government, announced the “voluntary dissolution” of the Foundation of Dominican Nuns in Nicaragua, in addition to that of ten other non-profit organizations, cancelling their legal personality.
Since 2018, the Nicaraguan dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and of his wife, Rosario Murillo, has cancelled 5,400 non-governmental organizations. According to La Gaceta, the reason is “non-compliance with the laws” that regulate non-profit and non-governmental organizations, laws that have been hardened recently to oblige them to work in association with the State.
Other organizations “voluntarily dissolved” are also of a religious character, such as the Ebenezer Christian Missionary Foundation, the Association of the Fundamental Baptist Church of Matagalpa and the Aid for Nicaragua Foundation.
The cancellation of the organizations arose from two Ministerial Agreements approved by the Minister of the Interior, Maria Amelia Coronel Kinloch. In 2024 alone, the dictatorship cancelled 1,700 non-profit organizations: 678 belonged to the Catholic and Evangelical Churches.
Last November the regime imposed a law to monitor and regulate the work in Nicaragua of organizations, cooperation agencies and Diplomatic Missions. This law increased governmental control over international entities. The norm states that any international cooperation needs “the consent and authorization of the Government, both initially as well as in its implementation.”
