A “World” journalist has been prevented from entering Nicaragua before the presidential election, while the arrests of journalists have multiplied since the summer.
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The Nicaragua continues its repressive climbing against the press as soon as the presidential ballot on 7 November. Since this summer, seven opposition candidates in the Daniel Ortega regime have been imprisoned or placed in supervised residence. Two Nicaraguan journalists, including Juan Lorenzo Holmann, Director of the Prensa, the largest daily life of the country, arrested in mid-August after the closure of the headquarters of his newspaper by the authorities, were also conducted in preventive prison.
The regime also prefers to keep the foreign press away. The Nicaragua authorities refused entry into their territory on Sunday, October 17, to a journalist in the world. Frédéric Saliba, corresponding to Mexico since 2009, has been served on the eve of its flight to Managua, that its airline ticket had been canceled by the airline, justifying a decision by the Nicaraguan authorities for “migratory reasons” . Mr. Saliba had, however, filled all the sanitary and legal rules required by President Ortega to power since 2007 and candidate for a fourth consecutive term. The same misadventure occurred in June on a New York Times envoy and a CNN chain team that attempted to enter Nicaragua, by the nearby Costa Rica. Le Monde also filed an application with the Nicaraguan Embassy in Paris to visit the place. The query remains unanswered to this day.
These refusals reveal the hardening hardening of a regime that gagotals the opposition and the press. Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who will be at his side on the ballots for a second term as Vice-President, have been facing since 2018, a popular and peaceful revolt claiming their departure of power, accusing them of “authoritarianism. “And” corruption “. At the time, the repression of the demonstrations had made 328 dead and nearly 2,000 wounded, pushing exile more than 100,000 Nicaraguans. Until then, the international media, including [Nute], had been able to enter the country to cover the various repressive waves of the authorities.
But since the beginning of June, the regime has tightened the tone against any critical voice, stopping 39 opposition leaders, journalists, students leaders or business leaders. The first of them was Cristiana Chamorro, the most popular opposition candidates by presidential and legislative ballot. M me Chamorro is the daughter of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, former president of Nicaragua (1990-1997) who had ousted power Mr. Ortega by the polls, before he resumes the reins of the country ten -Sept years later.
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