The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered on Wednesday night to take off the air the signal of the international chain CNN en Español, which was broadcast on the different cable companies in the country, denounced the US media through the journalist and presenter Fernando del Rincón.
“The Nicaraguan government took our television signal off the air, denying Nicaraguans news and information from a network they have trusted for 25 years,” the communicator said.
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Through a publication on its web portal, CNN en Español indicated that it has tried to obtain a response, both from the Nicaraguan regime as well as from the cable operators that carry the signal of said chain, however, they did not obtain a response.
At the time of cutting the signal, the message of the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, who was speaking from the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization, was transmitted.
The dictatorship prohibited the evangelical Church from celebrating Bible Day, in the midst of its attack on freedom of worship.
The National Council of Evangelical Pastors of Nicaragua issued a statement, released on social networks, in which they report that, “due to guidelines from the civil authorities, the 453rd anniversary of the translation of the Bible into Spanish will not be celebrated.”
The police denied the permit, telling them that it was for “the safety of the participants.” Given the restriction, the evangelical leaders indicated that the act will be held inside the temples and invited the members to raise prayers to God so that they can live “quietly and restfully.”
The evangelical activity is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of September of each year.
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Human rights defenders and relatives of the political prisoner miguel mendoza They launched an alert for the health of the sports writer, who announced a hunger strike starting on September 19 to demand from the regime his right to communicate with his eight-year-old daughter, whom he has not seen for more than a year.
Mendoza confided her decision to her relatives during her recent jail visit, authorized in late August.
Through a statement read by the sister of the political prisoner, Carla Mendoza, the relatives denounced that Miguel and his daughter cannot share letters or drawings and the judge has ignored the eleven requests that the defense attorney has introduced.
The situation has caused emotional damage to the minor, which is why the journalist took this protest measure, despite being a chronic patient.
Government stripped another hundred of their legal personality Organisms Without Purposes of Profit (OSFL), through a ministerial agreement published this Wednesday.
Minister María Amelia Coronel closed associations related to the care of war victims and people with disabilities, community members, environmentalists and indigenous women. Those that, according to the Government, are abandoned.
With this cancellation, the regime has eliminated more than 2,000 NGOs since the sociopolitical crisis of 2018 to date.
The illegitimate president, Daniel Ortega, made official in a “discreet” manner the installation of a new Nicaraguan ambassador in Colombia. The position remained vacant for nine months after ongoing diplomatic tensions with the government of former Colombian President Iván Duque.
Ortega decided to appoint Gadiel Francisco Arce Mairena as ambassador in Bogotá, through a presidential agreement published this Wednesday, despite criticism between the government of the new president of the South American country, the leftist Gustavo Petro, and the Nicaraguan regime.
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Gadiel Arce is a veteran diplomat who, during the first Sandinista regime in the eighties, was an official in the former Yugoslavia; later he exercised political functions of the Sandinista Front abroad and served as personal assistant to the late Tomás Borge, founder of Ortega’s party.
The number of Nicaraguans who left the country for the United States increased in a way never seen before. The border authorities of the North American country registered the irregular entry of more than 108 thousand Nicaraguans in just eight months.
The largest flow of migrants was reported from May to August, with an increase of 153% compared to the same period last year. The US authorities point out that, in those months, they detained more than 54 thousand Nicaraguan women.
Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Cubans, whose countries are ruled by dictators, are at the top of the list of citizens detained at the southern border of the United States.
