August 11, 2022, 9:58 AM
August 11, 2022, 9:58 AM
the television station NGTV announced this Wednesday (08.10.2022) that the channel 3 -which transmitted in the municipality of Nueva Guinea, in the southeast of Nicaragua– was taken off the air by order of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (TELCOR), bringing to 11 the number of media outlets canceled in the last two weeks in this Central American country.
“I was visited by the manager of Cable TV from New Guinea, to inform me, verbally, that the company had received a circular, an order from TELCOR, to take the signal from the air channel 3 of the network”, said the journalist and owner of NGTVCarlos José Suárez Jaime, in a video shared on social networks.
The closure of channel 3 of Nueva Guinea occurred days after TELCOR cancel eight Catholic radio stations, a feminist and a television channel, located in the department (province) of Matagalpa, in northern Nicaragua, amid friction between the government of President Daniel Ortega and the Catholic Church.
“I couldn’t say goodbye to you through the television screens because, when they told me, It was already off the air (…) I requested that they let me know that provision by means of a letter, which they have already confirmed to me that they are not going to do it. channel 3 disappears from the screens of the Telecable Nueva Guinea network”, Suárez affirmed.
According to the Nicaraguan Independent Journalists and Communicators movement (PCIN), the Ortega government has forced more than 120 journalists into exile.
