The National Assembly approved laws obligating non-profit organizations to work in partnership with the Ortega-Murillo government.
HAVANA TIMES – The Nicaraguan National Assembly, a body totally controlled by the Ortega regime, unanimously approved a package of reforms to the laws governing the Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that operate in the country. Between December 2018 and mid-August of 2024, seventy percent of the previously existing non-profit organizations, including the most active, were eliminated through forced closure and confiscation. The reform package was sent to the legislative body for their urgent approval.
The specific laws that were changed, with the approval of the 91 deputies are:
- General Law for the Regulation and Control of Non-profit Organizations (Law #1115)
- Law for the Regulation of Foreign Agents (Law #1040); and
- Tax Concertation Law (Law #822)
This package of reforms ordered by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ostensibly aims to “regulate” the execution of the programs and projects that non-profit organizations carry out in Nicaragua. According to the new norms, now the NGOs must work in alliance with the Interior Ministry, precisely the same body that has lowered the guillotine against so many of these organizations
