Interior Minister Mario Zamora Cordero fired this Friday Fabiola Romero Cruz, executive director of the National Community Development Institute (Dinadeco). He was replaced by Roberto Alvarado Astúa, who worked at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce.
Romero assumed the leadership of the public entity in 2022 and his term will be extended until 2026. However, his dismissal was reported by the Ministry of the Interior and Police in an official statement released at 8:59 pm this Friday, along with similar circumstances of the Alvarado merger.
Regarding the latter, the government stated that it “intends to proactively transform Community Development Associations (ADIS) to become engines of community development and growth.” The ministry also added that Zamora pointed out the need to “strengthen community organizations in the face of challenges in terms of transparency and participation in the more than 3,600 existing associations in the country.”
Dinadeco is an agency of the executive branch responsible for promoting, directing, coordinating and evaluating the organizational processes of communities to achieve active participation of communities in economic, social, cultural and environmental development.
The basis for its action is Law 3859 of April 7, 1967, on community development, which seeks to provide communities with the basic organizational legal instruments, allowing the formation of associations with legal status and an appropriate legal framework to promote decision-making based on a democratic model that favors citizen participation.
Fabiola Romero Cruz, executive director of the National Community Development Agency (Dinadeco), was fired on Friday, June 21. He was replaced by Roberto Alvarado Astúa. Photo: Legislative Assembly
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