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Interior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state

On 19 August 2024 Nicaragua’s Ministry of the Interior published Acuerdo Ministerial 38-2024-OSFL cancelling the legal personality of 1,500 non-profit organisations, including hundreds of religious associations, and ordering movable and immovable assets to the state. In the causal graph this event weakens Civic Space, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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On 19 August 2024 Nicaragua’s Ministry of the Interior published Acuerdo Ministerial 38-2024-OSFL cancelling the legal personality of 1,500 non-profit organisations, including hundreds of religious associations, and ordering movable and immovable assets to the state. El País and Al Jazeera recorded the same-week gazette. IACHR MESENI later compiled more than 5,000 cancellations since 2018. Quote MESENI.

Context

Law 1115 and Law 1127 sat as parents. Murillo’s office announced a ‘new model of operativity’ that week requiring remaining organisations to work only in alliance with state entities. María Amelia Coronel Kinloch signed. She remains unresolved. Murillo did not sit as every Interior clerk.

Law 1115 is the parent statute. Keep Interior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state on 2024-08-19 separate from neighbouring 7 November 2021 CSE night, 6 April 2022 Law 1115, 19 August 2024 Acuerdo 38, 30 January 2025 co-presidency reform, and 1 September 2026 first-reading seven-year vote.

The co-president of Nicaragua is head of state and, under the 2025 text, coordinates other organs and sits as supreme command of the army, police and Interior. She can announce constitutional reforms and midday communiqués. She does not sit as a CSE teller, a Managua trial judge, or every Interior clerk who stamps an NGO cancellation.

Why it matters

The path is civic space and co-rulership: a completed mass cancellation of civic and religious organisations, including asset transfer to the state.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Rosario Murillo

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    Coronel signed. Murillo’s office announced the new operativity model. Interior implemented. Religious and civic groups were the listed objects.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactInterior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state
    2. weakensDriverCivic Space
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 1 · Effect from 19 August 2024 · verified

    A completed 1,500-organisation cancellation is a dated weakening of civic and religious space.

    1. FactInterior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state
    2. strengthensDriverMurillo co-rulership
    3. weakensIndicators (2)Judicial constraints on the executive (V-Dem, global country mean)
    Worsening path

    impact weight 1 · Effect from 19 August 2024 · verified

    Acuerdo 38 is a dated strengthening of co-rulership as an NGO-and-church purge instrument.

    • Judicial constraints on the executive (V-Dem, global country mean)

      via Murillo co-rulership

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.57 (weight 1 × strength 0.57)

      Observed

      0.57 index score (0-1) · 0.23 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.5 index score (0-1) to 0.57 index score (0-1).

      Above normal = better

    • Having a say in government

      via Murillo co-rulership

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.49 (weight 1 × strength 0.49)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified3 sources on file
  1. 1.Al Jazeera — Nicaragua bans 1,500 NGOs in latest crackdown against civil societyAl Jazeera · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.murillo-co-rulership observation 2024-08-19National Assembly of Nicaragua · High credibility · verified
  3. 3.National Assembly of Nicaragua — Law 1145 traitor-to-the-homeland / denationalisation neighbourhood of February 2023National Assembly of Nicaragua · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Ministry of the Interior of Nicaragua carries the official instrument or communique. El País records the same dated act independently.

Established: Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancelled 1,500 organisations on 19 August 2024; El País and Al Jazeera recorded the gazette; MESENI compiled a larger 2018– stock.

Not established: A unique later MESENI increment as Contribution.size, or that the acuerdo was a completed voluntary dissolution of every named group.

Murillo’s office announced the new operativity model. Interior implemented. Religious and civic groups were the listed objects.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Interior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state, not a later speech about Interior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Coronel signed. Interior implemented. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorRosario Murillo
  2. contributed toFactInterior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state
  3. weakensDrivers (2)Civic Space
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Interior Acuerdo 38-2024-OSFL cancels 1,500 organisations and orders assets to the state. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ni-murillo-acuerdo-38-2024

https://factrail.ai/facts/ni-murillo-acuerdo-38-2024

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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