Glorie Martinez is a senior journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. She is intern with Texas Standard program on KUT, Austin’s NPR station. She also works as a research assistant at the Moody College of Communication’s Center for Media Engagement. Previously, she’s completed internships with PBS, NASA, and the Texas Observer.
In the year leading up to Nicaragua’s presidential election on Nov. 7, President Daniel Ortega implemented increasingly strict limitations on press freedom— a move critics say is part of a years-long campaign to silence Ortega’s political opposition.