The regime of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua advance with the persecution against opponents. This Wednesday, the Ministry of the Interior eliminated the legal personality of a television channel run by an opponentprecisely in the framework of the 30th anniversary of the World Day of Press Freedom.
This is the Fundación Cristiana de Televisión Enlace (Enlace Canal 21), whose direction was in charge of former deputy Guillermo Osorbi -presidential candidate for the Camino Cristiano Nicaraguan (CCN) party in the November 2021 elections-, which was a of the voices that led the claims for electoral fraud.
The banning of the Canal, with a religious profile and whose activities date back to October 2008, was approved by the head of the ministry, María Amelia Coronel, and is due to “breaches”.
“They did not report financial statements for the period 2021 to 2022″specifies the ministerial note published in the official newspaper The Gazette.
However, this reason is the one that the regime usually uses to disguise its persecution against opposition voices.
Osorno has served as a national deputy, as well as in the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), and was one of the complainants of electoral fraud after the presidential elections. This cost him, in November 2021, the cancellation of the license to the television channel and radio station that it also owned.
Channel 21 and Radio Nexo were canceled on November 9 of that year, the same day that the CCN party made the complaint for an adulteration in the number of voters that ensured that the participation was 25% and that the “no vote” triumphed. ”, all of which favored the Sandinista rulers.
This decision had been made by the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Posts (Telcor), the sector’s regulatory body, although it never officially referred to it and, therefore, the media continued with its broadcasts. until today.
These means were not, however, the only objectives of the regime. Along with his closure, Ortega advanced with the dissolution of 20 NGOs. In this case, it was a foundation of demobilized Sandinistas and 19 organizations – including eight that requested their voluntary termination.
The first was the Foundation of Demobilized and War Victims of the 80s SMP -Patriotic Military Service-, a group of former Sandinista combatants that had been registered in 2006.
As detailed by Colonel in the note issued, once again his cancellation of legal personality is due to the “non-compliance” due to the lack of financial statement reports, although, in this case, “from the period 2021 to 2022” and added that its board of directors had been expired since May 2013.
Among the other groups affected by the measure, the Western Self-Help Group Association that Lives with HIV, the International Foundation for Community Assistance of Nicaragua, the Association for the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua, the Foundation for the Development of Microenterprise, the Friends of the José de la Cruz Mena Municipal Theater, Rubén Darío Cultural Institute Association and Doctors Without Borders of Belgium.
With this last action, they are already at least 3,400 NGOs dissolved from April 2018 protests in which people took to the streets to demand the end of the regime, to which the authorities responded with violent repression.
From the Government they defended, however, that 12 organizations were closed unilaterally “for being abandoned and having between 1 to 12 breaches of their obligations in accordance with the laws that regulate them” and, the rest, were due to “voluntary dissolution”. .
To this was added the voice of pro-government deputies, such as Filiberto Rodríguez, who assured that the organizations in question had used resources from the donations they received to try to overthrow Ortega and that they explained, on the other hand, that it falls within a ordering process. As they specified, not all of the 7,227 NGOs registered in the country were actually operating.
After learning of the decision, the Ministry explained that the Attorney General’s Office must proceed ex officio to carry out the liquidation of the assets of the organizations. This implies that, except for those dissolved on their own initiative, in the rest, progress will be made with the transfer of movable or immovable property to the name of the State of Nicaragua.
(With information from EFE)
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