The Mexican television station TV Azteca is preparing a special program based on the series of reports entitled “It hurts to breathe,” which has given ample space to the situation in Nicaragua in the context of repression imposed by the Daniel Ortega regime. Now those investigations have spread to another news area of the medium.
The media outlet announced that the program directed by journalist Otoniel Martínez, who “will give an account of censorship and repression” in the Central American country, will be presented at two in the afternoon in Nicaraguan time. This journalistic work has generated controversy at the national and international level, since Martínez managed to infiltrate as a tourist and “outwit” all the “security” that the regime has imposed in order to enter the country.
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During the production of the special report entitled “It Hurts to Breathe”, Otoniel Martínez, the journalist who produced it, was detained and questioned by police officers on public roads, who forced him to erase his material from his cell phone, and he suffered the look and comments from those who watched him suspiciously. Martínez points out that in Nicaragua “a cell phone in the street is uncomfortable, the population is afraid to speak, it is not normal” and he felt sadness.
Another of the television station’s journalists said that with the images captured in the mid-semester report that “today Nicaragua is a full-fledged dictatorship, just like Cuba and Venezuela. We are seeing another of those disque communist paradises become a factory of suffering, poverty and repression.
“When Daniel Ortega came to power, he promised democracy, prosperity and freedom only to end up repressing, impoverishing and imprisoning the population, as happened with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. The figures don’t lie, every year tens of thousands of people flee the dictatorship of (Daniel) Ortega to seek a better life abroad,” said journalist Juan Pablo Delgado Cantú, who serves as head of the Investigation area at Azteca. News.
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Delgado highlighted that in Costa Rica alone the number of refugees doubled in less than a year, going from 70,000 in 2021 to 150,000 refugees at the beginning of 2022. “When we talk about communism we are not only talking about a failed ideology, we are talking about the suffering of millions of people, citizens who must abandon everything and put their lives in danger to escape from a dictatorship,” said Delgado Cantú.
“Yesterday it was Cuba and Venezuela, today it is Nicaragua. Seen in another way, they are the same “beggar” story of Latin American communism. Nicaragua is one more example that communism is a failed system that ends up elevating dictatorships,” the TV Azteca journalist continued.
