The regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, through the Registry of Real Estate and Commercial Property, dissolved the Trinchera de la Noticia Society on Friday, June 10 “for disturbing social peace” and executed the definitive closure of the media outlet, whose building was violently occupied by police officers and his assets, cash, bank accounts, and movable property were placed “under police guard.”
In a notification from the Property Registry, which was delivered to the director of the media outlet, María Alicia Talavera, it says that the company was sanctioned “for disturbing social peace and refusing to present the information within the established time or to present it in a timely manner.” incomplete or inaccurate form.
According to the regime, Trinchera de la Noticia would have committed a “very serious infraction” by transgress the Penal Code of the Republic of Nicaragua, the Law of Reform and Addition to the General Law of Public Registries and the Commercial Code of the Republic of Nicaragua and the Regulations for the Operation of the Register of Final Beneficiaries of Commercial Companies (RBFSM).
“Proceed to the dissolution of said company and cancel the registry account of the same”, says the resolution of the Property Registry. Consequently, “turn official letter to the National Police so that it proceeds to the closing, closure, occupation and intervention of the real estate or premises where said company operates; as well as the occupation by the National Police of the assets, cash, bank accounts and movable property of the company, the latter must be transferred by the National Police for their safekeeping” he continues.
The owners of the media outlet must also pay a fine of 53,748 cordobas, according to the resolution that was issued at 2:10 p.m. on June 10, minutes before the Police occupied the Trinchera de la Noticia building located near the traffic lights of La Tenderí, in Managua.
surprised by the police
At the time of the occupation of the Trinchera de la Noticia building, the police officers closed all the access roads to the media outlet, but minutes later they withdrew into the building. The Police broke into the place where two workers were present, the receptionist and the accountant, who were “aggressively taken out,” Talavera said minutes after the assault.
The occupation of Trinchera de la Noticia, founded in 1999 by journalist Xavier Reyes Alba, takes place in a context of repression against Nicaraguan citizens and the media. Previously they were occupied the newspaper the pressthe 100% News channel Y CONFIDENTIALwhose newsroom was confiscated twice and its director, the journalist Carlos F. Chamorrowas forced into exile to avoid being imprisoned.
Unions, such as the Nicaraguan Independent Journalists and Communicators movement (PCIN), have demanded that the Ortega government return the media outlets that it keeps occupied.
Since that social outburst against the Ortega government, at least 120 Nicaraguan journalists They have decided to go into exile, mainly to Costa Rica, the United States and Spain, according to data from the Nicaragua Never Again Human Rights Collective and the regional network Voces del Sur.
