The communication medium Trinchera de la Noticia denounced through its social networks that in the afternoon of this Friday, June 10, 2022, the Police at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime took over its facilities, located in the vicinity of the Traffic lights of the Tenderí, in Managua
“The Judiciary notified the closure of this media outlet,” says the statement published on the Facebook page News Trench. According to media journalists, this action was “surprising.”
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For the journalist Alberto Miranda, a former collaborator of one of the print media in tabloid format in Nicaragua, this new attack by the Ortega government adds to the censorship that has been taking place against all independent media.
“This is part of the onslaught of the Ortega and Murillo dictatorial regime against the independent press in Nicaragua. Ortega’s dictatorship has cut off all the printed media in the country, first the Nuevo Diario, then it took over the newspaper La Prensa and now they are going with this communication medium (Trinchera de la Noticia) which, although it was a small medium, but had his printing press and informed the people of Nicaragua,” he added.
Miranda pointed out that the objective of Ortega is to close all independent information spaces. “We know that there is already a wave of persecution by the regime, which uses all the powers of the State to approve – spurious – laws to attack the independent press.”
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Trench of the News was founded in 1999 in print version. With this new attack, this information medium becomes the fourth to be taken over by the Ortega Police; the first are 100% Noticias, Confidencial and La Prensa. Article 66 He tried to communicate with the directors of the media, but communication could not be established.
Since the social outbreak against the Ortega government in 2018, at least 120 Nicaraguan journalists have decided to go into exile, mainly to Costa Rica, the United States and Spain, including the 2021 Ortega y Gasset Prize winner, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, according to data from the Collective of Human Rights Nicaragua Never Again and the regional network Voces del Sur.
Since April 2018, the Ortega dictatorship is currently exerting economic pressure against television channels 10 and 12 and the radio station Radio Corporación. It has also created laws considered illegal to attack and censor Nicaraguan journalism.
