Daniel Ortega ordered the dissolution of the Nicaraguan Center of Writers and there are already 550 NGOs closed

The government of Nicaragua, through the Ministry of the Interior, has ordered the closure of another 93 local NGOs, including the Center of Nicaraguan Writers (CNE), founded by the late priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020), the legislature reported this Saturday.

With those new 93 non-profit associations rise to 550 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) whose ban has been called for by the Executive of President Daniel Ortega since December 2018, eight months after the outbreak of a popular uprising – caused by controversial social security reforms – described as an attempted coup by the government.

The dissolution of the CNE was urgently proposed by the Sandinista legislator Filiberto Rodríguez, at the request of the Ministry of the Interior, and We will talk about it next Tuesday.

the NEC, created April 5, 1990owns a publishing house which, with the support of the collaboration of Norwegian writers, has managed to publish 81 titles of poems, 39 short stories, 24 novels and three plays, for a total of 147 titles.

Under the CNE’s editorial seal, 121 novel titles have been published, according to its information.

A fictional publisher

They also publish the literary magazine El Hilo Azul, whose director in its first 10 years was the former vice president and writer Sergio Ramírez, exiled to Spain since last year.

Also, promote the National Poetry Award “Ernesto Cardenal in memoriam”.

“The Nicaraguan Writers Center was established with the aim of promoting the creation and investigation of literary, historical, social, political, cultural, economic and research works on Nicaraguan and Central American reality,” he explained in his description.

Also in defense and protection of the rights ofand author of its members and to implement a law for the protection of writers in their old age, which is still pending.

Two weeks ago, the authorities outlawed the Nicaraguan Academy of Languages after almost 94 years of existence, in one of the hardest blows against culture that the Ortega government has inflicted.

Also the NGO founded by the late former president Enrique Bolaños (2002-2007), which owns one of the most complete virtual libraries in the country.

Before they disbanded the NGO that organized the International Poetry Festival of Nicaraguawhich from 2005 to 2018 brought together more than 1,500 poets from 120 countries, for which he was considered one of the most important in Latin America.

For “default”

In the new list, the Interiors portfolio proposed to Parliament to cancel the legal status of 93 other NGOs, including associations that promote education, art, culture, environmental protection, eradication of sexist violence or community development.

According to the government of Nicaragua, these 93 NGOs have not fulfilled their duties and obligations established in the legislation that regulates them, “has hindered the control and surveillance of the Directorate General for Registration and Control of Bodies that are profit-making organizations of the Ministry of the Interior”.

In Nicaragua, with the vote of Sandinista deputies and their allies, who are the majority in Parliament, the legal personality of at least 457 NGOs has been canceled since December 2018, of which 33 foreign agencies.

Nicaragua has been going through a political and social crisis since April 2018, which has resulted in hundreds of deaths in popular protests branded as an attempted coup by Ortega, in power for 15 years and five consecutive months amid accusations of authoritarianism and electoral fraud .

Source: EFE

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