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The Ortega Murillo family appropriates the signal of the Nicaraguan Catholic Channel

On the same day—Friday, May 20, 2022—that the Daniel Ortega regime removed the Nicaraguan Catholic Channel, which belongs to the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference (CEN), from cable television, the Sandinista networks began the search for journalists, cameramen, presenters and other workers to operate in the new propaganda channel of the regime that would occupy their signal, they trust CONFIDENTIAL partisan sources.

As they describe, after the announcement they began to look for candidates and receive resumes for the new media outlet, which finally went on the air a few days ago under the name “Nicarao TV.” The sources detail that through WhatsApp groups they were told to send their documents because it would open a new channel and they were looking for staff.

Currently, the new channel broadcasts short programs with content favorable to the image of the regime, canned programming of movies and music videos, but with the staff they are hiring they hope to turn it into yet another propaganda channel. According to the sources, the direction of this new channel is managed by the Celeste Society, SA, linked to the presidential family and which controls the official outlet Viva Nicaragua, Channel 13.

Regime in command of eight national channels

With the creation of this television station, the regime would add eight open television channels that include Channel 2, 4, 6, 8, 13, 15 —which uses the frequency of 100% Noticias, a media outlet confiscated in 2018—, 22 and 51 In addition, a wide chain of radio stations and digital media, controlled by the children of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

Meanwhile, the regime expands its chain of propaganda, the channels and radios that are not related to the Government are pressured to take programs critical of the Ortega administration off the air, such as the television programs Esta Semana, Esta Noche, Onda Local, Danilo Lacayo Live, among others. In addition to the closure of spaces such as the confiscation of the newspaper La Prensa, with 95 years of history.

Until last May 20, Channel 51 belonged to the Catholic Church. However, that Friday, at 5:00 pm, the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor) ordered the cable operators to remove it from their grill in an act of retaliation against the Church.

“We inform our subscription television users that according to instructions from Telcor, the regulatory entity, channel 51, Canal Católico, is being removed from the service’s programming grid,” Claro Nicaragua said in a brief statement released on its social networks.

Moments before taking it off the air, Nicaragua’s Catholic Channel broadcast a series of religious activities promoted by the Church in support of the indefinite fast that Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, began the day before, after being besieged and watched by officials of the the National Police.

Catholic Voice of Nicaragua also closes

The Catholic Voice of Nicaragua newspaper was founded 16 years ago by Monsignor Silvio Fonseca.

the monthly newspaper Catholic Voice of Nicaragua, directed by Monsignor Silvio Fonseca, vicar of the family of the Archdiocese of Managua, will also cease to circulate due to the cancellation of the legal status of the Association of Catholic Publishers (PUBLICA), figure under which this medium was produced.

The priest explained that this association had all the documentation in order and updated, for which the reason for this cancellation is not explained. “Here they never told us that this or that was wrong, once we needed something and we made amends. But then we went, we delivered the books and they didn’t deliver them back to us anymore, ”he pointed out.

The monthly newspaper Voz Católica de Nicaragua was founded 16 years ago and its editorial line was of religious content, replicating the messages of Pope Francis, the readings of the day, the saints of the Catholic Church, but they also carried out reports and news framed in that approach.

“It is a totally Catholic medium (and by removing it) they would be depriving the Catholic people of being formed in their faith,” said Monsignor Fonseca, who in November 2021 denounced that the immigration authorities took away his passport after informing him that “they had problems read it”, since then the religious does not have this document.

In November 2021, the Ortega regime also removed Enlace Canal 21 from the cable grid, which was linked to the evangelical pastor Guillermo Osorno, who participated as a presidential candidate in Ortega’s presidential elections. The departure from national television occurred after he denounced irregularities in the electoral process, in which there was no opposition.

“What does the channel have to do with this? The channel has a system in which even political or other types of ads are never shown. I have a program on Tuesdays and Thursdays and since I started the political campaign I have not appeared again. What I am talking about is the Christian faith,” Osorno said then.

*With information from EFE



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