"The Ortega y Gasset Journalism Awards, the most prestigious in Spanish journalism, announced winners for its 38th edition. [...] The award-winning journalists were Isabela Ponce of Ecuador; Mariano Zafra, Javier Salas and photographer Brais Lorenzo of Spain; and Carlos Fernando Chamorro of Nicaragua. [...] The Ortega y Gasset Awards, created in 1984 by EL PAÍS […]
"The owner and director of Radio Corporación, Fabio Gadea Mantilla; former executive director of the assaulted channel 100% Noticias, Verónica Chávez; and journalist María Lilly Delgado, Univisión correspondent, were summoned by the public prosecutor to be 'interviewed,' in the case for the alleged crime of 'money and asset laundering,' which was opened against Cristiana Chamorro […]
"The Nicaraguan Police carried out this Thursday [May 20] a new raid against the magazine Confidencial, a media outlet critical of the Daniel Ortega regime and led by journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro. Several journalists were repressed or detained while covering the raid. [...] Chamorro, the journalist, has denounced in a radio program that at the […]
"This Tuesday [May 11] morning, photojournalist Wilmer López, of the newspaper La Prensa and Periódico de Hoy, was physically attacked by a mob of at least 15 Ortega fanatics from the Roberto Huembes market who were identified as Commema [administrator of markets in Managua] officials. The people persecuted him through the whole shopping center, they […]
"'From cordoba to cordoba,' this is how the journalist David Quintana, a critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, affirmed this Thursday [May 6] that he had collected 13,500 cordobas (about US $387), referring to the fine that he had to pay to the judiciary for the crime of injurias and slander, in a case branded as 'political' […]
“Anti-riot agents of the [Nicaraguan] National Police beat and illegally detained journalist Kalúa Salazar, editor-in-chief of Radio La Costeñísima, in her home. At dawn on Monday, April 19, the communicator tried to leave her house in Bluefields, to go to the media outlet, but the officers forcibly prevented her from doing so. 'A caravan for […]
“Officers of the sanctioned Sandinista police seized the cell phone of journalist Carlos Larios of newspaper La Prensa when he was covering the siege and persecution of presidential candidates of Nicaragua, Medardo Mairena, George Henríquez and Luis Fley, who were detained at the international airport. 'I came to the Managua international airport to cover the […]
“Human rights defenders, journalists, farmers and political prisoners – in the last six days – denounce a new repressive escalation of the Daniel Ortega regime through the police and supporters of the Sandinista Front, who continue to carry out sieges, retentions, criminalizations, threats and the impediment of political meetings. The complaints made on social networks […]
"On Feb. 24, an unidentified man went to [Wilih] Narváez’s house in Managua, the capital [of Nicaragua], and yelled at the journalist’s mother and told her he knew that it was the home of a journalist from Canal 10, the broadcaster where until recently Narváez had worked as a reporter and host, according to the […]
"Under the Daniel Ortega regime, the practice of journalism has become increasingly difficult in Nicaragua. If this was already a difficult profession, now the lack of access to information, the constant harassment, the consummate confiscation of media outlets, the murders of journalists in full exercise of their work, and the trials and sentences of Nicaraguan […]
"The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo will execute this Tuesday, Feb. 23, the last act of confiscation of Confidencial, Esta Semana, Esta Noche, Revista Niú and the offices of the consulting company Cabal, in complicity with the Ministry of Health (Minsa, for its acronym in Spanish). Vice President Rosario Murillo announced that this […]
"The Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting independent journalism and press freedom in Nicaragua, announced this Friday, Feb. 5, that it will cease operations because they will not be subject to the Foreign Agents Law approved by the Assembly last October. [...] The Ministry of the Interior (Migob, for its acronym […]