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Nicaragua has closed 101 citizenships and charities, including a local branch of charitable missionaries founded by Mother Teresa, the parliament said in a statement late Wednesday.
The latest move under the government of President Daniel Ortega, who said the opposition was an attack on civil society, was that the group "complied with the obligations established by domestic law. I didn't. "
Charitable missionaries working with poor communities have been active in Nicaragua for over 34 years.
In April, the Nicaraguan parliament, controlled by Ortega's allies, closed 25 non-governmental organizations, many of which were openly criticizing the government. Lawmakers alleged that the NGO violated Nicaraguan law.
Ortega, one of the leaders of the Sandinista rebellion who defeated former dictator Anastasia Somoza in 1979, January, two months after winning an election rejected by the United States. I vowed to take office as president for four consecutive terms. And other Western countries as a scam.
In March, the Vatican protested Nicaragua about the effective expulsion of the ambassador to the capital, Managua, saying that unilateral actions were unjustified and incomprehensible.
Archbishop Valdemar Sommertag, who has been the ambassador since 2018, had to suddenly leave the country after the government withdrew the diplomatic recognition of the envoy known as Agrément in diplomatic terms.
"The Ortega administration in Nicaragua has systematically revoked the legal registration of human rights groups and other NGOs to destroy some of the still-surviving democratic pits in the country." He told Reuters at Juan Papier Human Rights Watch, a senior researcher in Latin America. (Report by Steven Grattan of São Paulo; edited by Tomasz Janowski)
