The Ortega justice accused four workers of the confiscated newspaper La Prensa of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.” Those mentioned make up the team that covered the expulsion of the 18 nuns of the Missionaries of Charity order, whom Ortega ordered to leave for Costa Rica days after closing their charity organization.
The accusation, dated September 29, is headed by prosecutor Heydi Estela Ramírez Olivas. The alleged victim is the State of Nicaragua and Nicaraguan society. Among those accused by the dictatorship are two drivers of the newspaper who have kept them kidnapped in the cells of the Judicial Assistance Directorate (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote”, since the beginning of July.
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La Prensa ordered the forced exile of all its staff after that onslaught of the dictatorship, the raid on the homes of its collaborators and the permanent siege against its journalists who continue to work outside of Nicaragua in the face of threats of arrest.
The accusation against the four collaborators of La Prensa is filed in the Fifth Criminal District Court of Managua, with Judge Nalia Nadezhda Úbeda Obando, who sentenced the political prisoners Juan Bautista Guevara, Luis Cuevas Poveda, Alex Vanegas, Leonidas Luquez, among others.
Since August 2021, the dictatorship ordered the confiscation of La Prensa’s facilities and assets valued at nearly 10 million dollars. The media manager was also arrested and has been in prison for more than a year.
On the site where the newsroom, printing press, and administrative offices operated, the regime ordered the installation of the “José Coronel Urtecho Cultural and Polytechnic Center” under the administration of the National Technological Institute (INATEC).
For their part, the relatives of the poet José Coronel Urtecho have rejected that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo use the name of the founder of the Nicaraguan Vanguardia literary movement in the new cultural center.
