"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 […]
“Hours after the director of Radio Darío, businessman Aníbal Toruño, denounced –in an international news network– violations of press freedom in Nicaragua, police of President Daniel Ortega's regime raided his home for the third time in two months. The officers broke into the building at approximately ten in the morning, when there was no one […]
“The non-governmental Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh, for its acronym in Spanish) denounced this Saturday [Jan. 30] the destruction of a headquarters of the digital media outlet Confidencial, critical of the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, in the context of the socio-political crisis that the Central American country has experienced since 2018. 'Knowing that […]
"At 3:40 in the afternoon of this Monday, Jan. 4, in the city of León, two National Police patrols, with approximately a dozen anti-narcotics and anti-riot agents with canines arrived at the home of the director of Radio Darío, Aníbal Toruño. The agents entered after destroying the iron fence and the main door of the […]
“Two years ago, at midnight on Dec. 13, 2018, the Police at the service of Daniel Ortega's regime assaulted and looted the newsroom of Confidencial and Esta Semana, without having a court order. A day later, the violations continued with the permanent occupation of our newsroom by armed elements of the Police, who have been […]
"On Dec. 14, the Nicaraguan National Police forcefully evicted journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro; the president of the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh), Vilma Núñez, and a group of journalists who were covering the press conference of the director of newspaper Confidencial, held to demand the return of the offices of this media outlet and […]
“Two years ago, at midnight on Dec. 13, 2018, the Police at the service of Daniel Ortega's regime assaulted and looted the newsroom of Confidencial and Esta Semana, without a court order. A day later, the outrage continued with the permanent occupation of our newsroom by armed members of the Police, who have been there […]
“Judge Silvia Elena Chica Larios, head of the Fourth Civil District Court of Managua, did not accept the evidence offered by the Nicavisión SA company, which operates the media communications of Channel 12, in rejection of a second fiscal objection of seven million cordobas [about US $ 200 thousand] imposed by the General Directorate of […]