Officials of the Masaya mayor’s office took over El Coyotepe fortress and surrounding land which had been donated to the Scouts for an educational camp
By Ivan Olivares (Confidencial)
HAVANA TIMES – The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered the closure of eight NGOs, including the Scouts Association of Nicaragua, the Rotary Club of Leon, the University of Health Sciences and Renewable Energy, and several evangelical and Catholic religious organizations.
This brings the number of non-profit organizations closed by the regime since 2018 to 3,230, mostly based on accusations that they did not have their books in order, that they did not have a legal board of directors, or that they had not submitted some report on time. Many of the outlawed organizations argued that the Ministry of the Interior itself refused to receive their documents in order to fabricate an excuse to close them.
The news of the cancellation comes amid Scout Week, a period in which more than 40 million Scouts around the world carry out activities to celebrate the birthday anniversaries of both founders: Robert Baden-Powell, Lord of Gilwell, born February 22, 1857, and his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, born February 22, 1889.
The Scouts were founded in Nicaragua in Bluefields in 1917, when Aubrey Campbell Ingram, then a teenager, met with Moravian pastor Joseph (Joe) Harrison to form a troop that became known as Morava 1. The Scouts movement came to the Pacific region of Nicaragua independently in the 1930
