Regional science body condemns attack on higher education

The Latin American Academy of Sciences (ACAL), made up of 250 academics from 17 countries in Latin America, condemned the coercion of higher education and science in Nicaragua, through what they called the imposition of restrictions that “attack the autonomy of higher education institutions and academic freedom in various universities”, reports The LA News.

The academics also lamented the closure of the Nicaraguan Academy of Sciences by the National Assembly, which is dominated by the Sandinista Front bench, which persecutes non-governmental organisations and recently eliminated university autonomy to perpetuate the control of the regime on higher education, through legislative reforms.

ACAL is a regional organisation designed to promote and contribute to the development of science and its applications for the benefit of human, cultural and social development. Its members described as “unusual” the events that have occurred in Nicaragua in relation to university autonomy.
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