In line with Ortega, Nicaraguan parliament orders closure of 5 universities

The National Assembly (Parliament) of Nicaragua, with a majority of the government, canceled this Wednesday the operating authorizations of five universities and the legal entities of others. NGOs in the country, raising to 80 the total number of non-profit civil organizations banned since December 12163734 , at the request of the government of dictator Daniel Ortega.

)Universities that have been registered as NGOs and have been canceled by Parliament are the Paulo Freire University (UPF), the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (Upoli), the Catholic University of the Dry Tropics (Ucatse), the Nicaraguan University of Humanistic Studies (Uneh) and the Popular University of Nicaragua (Uponic).

Previously, deputies sa Ndinistas and their allies also banned the organizations that owned the Universidad Hispano-Americana (Uhispam), Association of the Agricultural University of the Fifth Region, Association of the University of Jinotega and the Fundación Universidad de Mobile Latinoamericana Campus (Fumlac).

With these 11 NGOs, the number of local entities considered illegal since the outbreak of the socio-political crisis in Nicaragua in April 2018, That left 355 dead, rose to 80, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

The closure of the five universities and the NGOs was implemented because allegedly the affected institutions “failed to submit financial reports to the Ministry of Registration and Control of Non-Profit Civil Associations” rio do Interior, or because its “Board of Directors is mindless”, according to the decree.