Word: chamorros
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...Prensa is the only Nicaraguan newspaper not aligned with the government, which also controls 80% of the radio and TV stations. As it chronicled the revolution's mounting failures, the daily, now edited by Chamorro's son, Pedro Joaquín Jr., 30, once more found itself the principal target of a regime that does not tolerate dissent. Chamorro's widow Violeta, an original member of the revolutionary government, resigned in March 1980, offering reasons of health, to concentrate on helping her son with the paper. One month later, La Prensa was paralyzed by a Sandinista-induced...
This year two press laws have been enacted, carrying penalties that include temporary suspension of publication and jail terms of up to three years for newspaper editors who publish information the government thinks is "sensitive." Under these laws, Chamorro's newspaper has been shut down five times. Each time, the young editor has come out swinging as soon as his presses started to roll again...
...accused the government of approving mob violence to squelch an opposition rally, unfairly confiscating private property, and packing the national legislature with Sandinistas. When the Sandinistas, having long since deferred plans for free elections in Nicaragua, called for free elections in El Salvador, Chamorro acidly asked: "If Salvadorans can vote, why not us?" After the latest shutdown earlier this month, La Prensa returned with a blistering editorial written by Violeta Chamorro...
...Sandinistas' response to this invocation of the martyred Chamorro-still a symbol of the revolution-was swift. Unless La Prensa stops criticizing the government, announced Sandinista Commandante Jaime Wheelock, the newspaper will be shut down permanently. La Prensa, said Wheelock, must "fit in with the revolution...
...Shutting down La Prensa," he said, "would be like killing Pedro Joaquín Chamorro all over again...