"In an increasingly fraught climate for independent media in Nicaragua, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the writers’ association PEN International call on the country’s legislators to reject a bill under which many journalists would have to register as 'foreign agents.' With its declared aim of 'preventing crimes against state security,' the proposed 'Law regulating foreign […]
"Judge Deyanira Traña, in charge of the Bluefields Local Criminal Court, declared the journalist and editor-in-chief of Radio La Costeñísima, Kalúa Salazar, 'guilty' this Wednesday morning, Sept. 23, for the crime of calumnia (defamation), after publishing the report: 'Corruption is uncovered in the Mayor's Office of the El Rama municipality'... Salazar, upon leaving the Bluefields […]