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But the Managua-based newspaper faced another, more immediate challenge. For more than a year, President Daniel Ortega had barred La Prensa from accessing two of its most essential ingredients: newsprint and ink. Since then, the government had waged war against the Nicaraguan press, harassing, arresting and sometimes torturing journalists. Now La Prensa faced the same fate. The newspaper and its companion publication, a tabloid called Hoy, were being printed on thick bond paper, which was available only in small quantities domestically and at a much higher cost than newsprint.
Those who remained peered glumly around the mostly empty newsroom, wondering if they would be next to go. La Prensa had protested the blockade.
So on Jan. An online version of the article captured widespread attention globally with its stark warning: If La Prensa and Hoy were forced to stop publishing, Nicaragua would be left without a single printed newspaper. Ortega has long been hostile to the independent press, dating to his days as a Sandinista guerrilla fighting the right-wing dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. Even back in the s, Ortega distrusted the media and preferred speaking to propaganda outlets loyal to the revolution.
It was the assassination of La Prensa Publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, a vocal critic of the dictatorship, that touched off the civic uprising that eventually ousted Somoza and brought Ortega and his Sandinista party to power. But when the newspaper began to criticize Ortega, he responded by censoring it. She won and served until The Sandinistas were booted from power for 16 years.
When Ortega was reelected president in , he was more determined than ever to control the media. He announced a new communication strategy that called for limited engagement with journalists.
Longtime La Prensa reporter Emiliano Chamorro Mendieta, who is not related to Pedro Chamorro, said that once, after he wrote about a Catholic bishop who had criticized the Ortegas, he was trailed by intelligence officers and his children were harassed at school. Death threats followed. Things got worse when a wave of anti-Ortega protests broke out in the spring of , and tens of thousands of people flooded the streets.
Chamorro was there to cover them, and said police and pro-Ortega paramilitary groups went out of their way to target him and other media workers. Chamorro said he was beaten by Ortega supporters.
Other journalists who had covered the protests were jailed and tortured. More than fled the country. Load Previous.
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