Nicaraguan government closes another university and 9 more non-governmental organizations

He Government of Nicaragua canceled the legal personality this Tuesday María Guerrero University Association for Administration, Trade and Customs (Unacad) and another 9 associations that acted as non-profit organizations.

The dissolution of these organizations was approved in Managua by the Minister of the Interior, Maria Amelia Coronelaccording to the ministerial agreement published in the official newspaper La Gaceta of Nicaragua.

The subject stated that he closed Unacad, which had been operating since February 2005, at the request of the study center.

UNACAD submitted its request for voluntary dissolution to the National Council of Universities (CNU) and asked the Ministry of the Interior to cancel its legal personality due to voluntary dissolution due to the low income it receives, which prevents it from fulfilling its investments, the portfolio explained.

The other 9 non-governmental organizations that were canceled are Association of the Forestry Chamber of Nicaragua, Association of the Church of El Nuevo Remanente, Association of Export Industrialists of Nicaragua, Association of the Nicaraguan Institute for Human Studies and the Christian Foundation Renew Me Lord.

Also Máter Purisima Nicaraguan Association Year 2000, Aguas Bravas Foundation Nicaragua, Iglesias Only Jesus Christ Saves Acts 4:12 Association and Local Network Chamber of the Global Compact in Nicaragua

The Ministry of the Interior claimed that it annulled the legal personality of those 9 NGOs because breach their obligationsin accordance with the laws governing them, obstructing the control and supervision of the Main Directorate for Registration and Control of Non-Profit Organizations.

The state keeps the property

Regarding the monetization of the assets of the associations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained that the State Attorney’s Office will act ex officio in the transfer of movable or immovable property in the name of the State of Nicaragua, except for the university that requested voluntary dissolution.

By closing these ten non-governmental associations, they add up to more than 3,550 organizations of this type were dissolved after popular protests that broke out in April 2018.

Some Sandinista lawmakers, such as Filiberto Rodríguez, said the affected NGOs used funds from the donations they received to try to oust President Daniel Ortega in protests that broke out in April 2018.

The Sandinistas also claimed that the illegalization of these NGOs was part of the ordering process, as not all of the 7,227 registered in Nicaragua as of 2018 were operating.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which worsened after the controversial general elections on November 7, 2021, in which Ortega was re-elected for a fifth term, fourth consecutive and second with his wife, Rosario Murilloas vice-president, with the main competitors in prison or in exile.