Aníbal Toruño, director of Radio Darío in León, stated that the resolution of the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor) on the closure of your station is nothing more than a “rigged excuse”since the objective of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo is to silence the critical voice of their media outlet.
This Friday, Telcor workers arrived at the offices of Radio Darío to report the closure of that radio station.
The journalist pointed out that Law 670, Law of Extension of the Licenses of Companies, Natural or Legal Persons that operate Radio, Television and Telecable, gives a moratorium to these entities until Law 200 (General Law of Telecommunications and Services) is reformed. Postcards), “therefore, any Telcor argument is spurious, false, lying, and the only intention is to close a media outlet after 73 years.”
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Toruño stressed that the regime turned off a transmitter, but not the voices of the journalists from Radio Darío, and that he will continue working for the country’s freedom and truth, convinced that the passage of the Ortega-Murillos in power is “ephemeral.” , and that is only sustained through repression.
“To my people, to my colleagues, to my journalist brothers, to my people, I say I am not afraid, I have not hidden, I do not use dark glasses or bodyguards. I have been afraid, but I have never been immobilized in the face of their threats and their power, ”Toruño declared, during a brief conference from the offices of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights (CPDH) in the United States, where he is in exile.
Radio Darío was founded in 1949 by Juan Toruño Calderón, father of the journalist, and was a pioneer of radio broadcasters in the country. During its history it has suffered attacks, closures and destruction. “The jail and exile of my father, and now mine, leave a history of 73 years of struggle for freedom of expression and democratic principles of our beloved Nicaragua,” shared the communicator.
“You have to keep reporting”
Marcos Carmona, of the CPDH, urged to continue denouncing the arbitrariness of the Ortega regime because in the future, when freedom and democracy return to Nicaragua, the denunciations will serve to sentence the abusers of power.
Also at the conference were Berta Valle, wife of political prisoner Félix Maradiaga; Luis Galeano, journalist and director of Café con voz; and Iván Taylor, from the Nicaraguan diaspora, who condemned the repressive act of the regime and expressed their solidarity with Toruño.
Valle took the opportunity to demand the release of the political prisoners, and mentioned the cases of the journalists Miguel Mendoza and Miguel Mora, as well as the general manager of La Prensa, Juan Lorenzo Holmann, who have been unjustly convicted.
For their part, both Galeano and Taylor stressed that the fight against censorship by the Ortega dictatorship will continue from exile, and even if it continues to close news spaces in the country, the truth will always come out.
