The Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, recalled that tomorrow, Saturday, April 15, the National Technological Institute (Inatec) will inaugurate, in the building stolen from the newspaper La Prensa, the “José Coronel Urtecho Cultural and Polytechnic Center”.
Quoting some lines from the poem The past will not return, by the poet José Coronel Urtecho, the first lady expressed —altering some stanzas— that “those from the past are those who would like to return to the past, but make no mistake, no one in Nicaragua will be deceived anymore. The past will not come back.”
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«We repeat that the past will not return, as the teacher, poet and intellectual José Coronel Urtecho said, because the past does not return, it cannot return, because this is a Nicaragua of faith, family and community that says homeland and says peace ( …)”, added the spokesperson for the Nicaraguan dictatorship.
Prior to this inauguration, the regime ordered a series of purchases to equip and condition the confiscated property, which is valued at 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 that 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.
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In August 2021, the building of the newspaper La Prensa was occupied by the Ortega Police and later confiscated, but not before kidnapping and sentencing several of its directors and staff.
The onslaught of the dictatorship forced the editorial staff of the oldest newspaper in Nicaragua to leave the country to protect their lives and continue reporting.
