Government of Nicaragua imposes many, legal cancellations on persons and institutions that are not registered as foreign agents

(CNN Español) – The Government of Nicaragua’s Government publishes in the official diary La Gaceta the letter “Normative for Regulation, Supervision and Sanction of Extraordinary Agents” which establishes sanctions – from lots of between 300 and 500,000 dollars, up to the cancellation of its staff and funds assets and works by the Ley Infringement Commission in question.

The normative establishes a control of the persons and institutions that must be proportionate to the Ministry of Government, confidential information of its directive, as well as private information of its donors.

The regulations establish that “By the MUY GRAVE Infringement Commission, a multitude of five thousand units multiplied to the quintiles of several multitude units”. Each multi-unit, according to the regulations, is equivalent to 1 dollar from the United States. Assimilation may temporarily suspend the operation of the foreign agent and it will cancel its registration by denying it a very serious error.

Among the folds are very large that establish the regulations: «a. Include the need to register with the Registry of Foreign Agents; b. Carry out distinct activities of the fines and objectives established in its register as Foreign Agent; c. Receive and execute funds and good materials without the presentation of a prior information; d. utilize and destine the transfers of funds or assets of a different manner to the informed informed to the Competent Authority; e. Do not send monthly informations, information and / or documents required by the Register of Foreign Agents. »

La jurista Independiente Martha Patricia Molina, consulting CNN, does not consider the las sanctions as an aljusto marco legal ni a la economía del país. Molina manifested: “His irresistible and illegal, commanding by the hecho that the official currency of Nicaragua is the cordoba the dollar”.

In the regulations are also considered as a very serious fault «finance, promote financing
any type of organization, movement, political party, coalitions or political alliances or associations that develop domestic political activities in Nicaragua ».

The norm is presented to more than 90 days of the approval of Ley of Foreign Agents requiring that natural persons or jurists, Nicaraguans or other nationalities, that act as external agents, deben abstain from intervening in matters of care and activity legal sanctions.

The member of the political council of the opposition National Union of Azul and White, Félix Maradiaga, considers that the Law of the Regulation of Foreign Agents, as its rules governing the opposition to the electorate. “The foreign agents’ list is a copy of similar instruments approved by Cuba and Russia. “The objective is to close the gates to any possibility that the civil society and the opposition parties can receive technical or financial support from the international community,” Maradiaga said.

President Daniel Ortega in various speeches in national media has signaled opposition leaders – without mentioning numbers – to receive proceeds from the United States to destabilize the country, starting April 2018 when the anti-government protests begin.

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