The vice dictator of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, announced that the National Technological Institute (Inatec) will inaugurate the “José Coronel Urtecho Cultural and Polytechnic Center” on April 15, a few days after commemorating the fifth anniversary of the April 2018 Rebellion.
The Inatec Center is located in the facilities of the confiscated newspaper La Prensa. The second in command of the dictatorship affirmed that the inauguration takes place “reminding all of us that the past will not return, that here we go forward, always beyond.”
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Prior to this inauguration, the regime has ordered a series of purchases to equip and condition the stolen property that is valued between 18 and 20 million dollars, according to the newspaper’s website.
According to Inatec Resolution No. 13-2023, published in La Gaceta No. 54 on Thursday, March 23, 2023, a tender amounting to 3 million 816 thousand 893.55 córdobas was awarded to the company “Redes y Circuitos”, the only bidder who appeared.
The contract is for the “Acquisition of equipment, supplies and materials for the Art and Culture Specialty at the José Coronel Urtecho Cultural and Polytechnic Center”. The award was made under a “selective modality” and on an “urgency” basis.
On February 13, 3.25 million córdobas were also allocated “urgently” to provide maintenance to the machines of the printing press occupied in August 2021 to the newspaper La Prensa.
Through the administrative resolution published in The Gazette On Monday, February 13, the dictatorship expresses that the printing equipment will be used to reproduce the material that the center requires for its work.
