After accusing her of violate neutrality in the 2018 protests, the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, dissolved the Nicaraguan Red Cross, He also confiscated her assets and replaced her with an agency attached to the government.
As far as is known, the anger of the leftist Ortega government against the Red Cross is due to the fact that its volunteers attended to Injured Opposition Protesters in the protests, as reported at the time.
The resolution was adopted unanimously by the National Assemblycontrolled by the sandinista front of President Daniel Ortega and states the following: “Repeal Legislative Decree number 357 (…) of October 29, 1958, by which the Nicaraguan Red Cross Association was created.”
Why did Nicaraguan authorities dissolve the Red Cross?
The resolution was unanimously adopted by the National Assembly
The norm approved by parliament orders the creation of a new Nicaraguan Red Cross, which will be an “autonomous decentralized entity with legal personality, its own assets and indefinite duration”, attached to the Ministry of Health.
Pro-government deputies accused the Red Cross of transgressing the laws on non-profit organizations and the principle of neutrality of the humanitarian organization.
The government considered the protests as an attempted coup promoted by the United States, while international organizations accused the executive of promoting a repression against the opposition.
In Nicaragua, the Red Cross has 28 affiliates in cities and towns throughout the country, had some 2,000 volunteers and 63 ambulances. He also collected blood for hospitals and conducted driver’s license tests.
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As we have mentioned in other informative notes of The Truth NewsThe Red Cross was founded in Geneva in 1863 to protect victims of armed conflicts at the impulse of the Swiss banker Henri Dunant (1828-1910), winner of the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
In the world there are 192 national societies of the Red Cross (and of the Red Crescent, in Muslim nations), according to the International Federation that groups them and with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
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