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Nicaragua’s Ortega proposes law to control international organizations and cooperation

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Nicaragua’s President, Daniel Ortega, presented a law on Tuesday to control the work of international organizations, cooperation agencies, and diplomatic missions in the country, according to a document released by Nicaraguan media in exile, which was accessed by AFP.

The proposal was submitted to Congress, which is controlled by the government, as part of a series of laws accompanying a constitutional reform passed last Friday that grants Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo absolute control over the Nicaraguan state.

The initiative states that international cooperation “must have the consent and authorization of the government, both initially and during its implementation.”

It also stipulates that the work of these organizations “must be carried out without political, economic, social, or cultural conditions,” while respecting “national sovereignty, independence, and self-determination.”

The law expressly prohibits any type of “interference in Nicaragua’s internal affairs.”

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International cooperation “must align with national priorities and be in accordance with the plans, programs, and national strategies set by the government,” the document highlights.

With this reform, Ortega further consolidates his control over international entities after reforming the “Foreign Agents” and “Control of Non-Profit Organizations” laws, which require NGOs to work only in “partnership alliances” with state entities.

Since the protests against Ortega in 2018, which he and Murillo claimed were supported by NGOs and the Catholic Church, more than 5,300 organizations have been shut down by the government. Dozens of clerics from the Church were imprisoned and later expelled to the Vatican, the United States, and other countries.

Ortega, a 78-year-old former guerrilla who ruled Nicaragua in the 1980s and has been in power since 2007, claims the protests, which according to the UN left more than 300 dead, were an attempted coup sponsored by Washington.

Thousands of Nicaraguans have fled into exile, and about 450 politicians, businesspeople, intellectuals, and artists have been stripped of their nationality in recent years, accused of “treason to the homeland.”

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