“A new tax assessment is being levied against Nicavisión SA, the company that owns Channel 12, by the General Income Directorate (DGI). The institution demands seven million cordobas (US $ 201,125) from the television station and does not accept proof of the expenses and investments that the company has made in recent years. This new […]
"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 […]