Word: prensa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antichurch actions followed closely on the heels of the June 26 shutdown of La Prensa, the only remaining opposition daily in Managua. The 60- year-old newspaper's campaign against Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle once helped to put the revolutionary regime in power. Even so, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Saavedra insists that La Prensa has become a vehicle for CIA propaganda and will remain closed until the "war" is over...
...catalogs dozens of Nicaraguan violations, including torture, denial of due process to thousands of political detainees, and refusal to allow labor unions to strike or engage in collective bargaining. "The recent actions of the government to expel two Roman Catholic priests and the closing down of the newspaper La Prensa are not new," concedes Nina Shea, a lawyer who wrote the report. "They are part of a pattern of repression against dissidents that has been going on for many years." And given the jangled nerves of the Nicaraguan leaders, the repression seems likely to grow even worse...
...rebels can overthrow the Sandinistas, and it remains uncertain whether they can even slow Ortega's drive to consolidate one-party rule. In the short run, at least, U.S. support for the contras has had the opposite effect: the day after the House vote, the Sandinistas shut down La Prensa, Nicaragua's leading independent newspaper and hinted at new restrictions on opposition political parties...
...publisher of La Prensa, Violeta Chamorro, received the award for her paper's fight to keep a free press alive in Nicaragua, the Nieman Foundation said...
...political pluralism, Nicaragua's opposition parties have found it difficult to communicate their messages to the public. Last month, for example, six parties issued a document proposing a cease-fire, an end to the state of emergency and a new schedule for elections. The proposal was censored from La Prensa, the country's only nongovernment newspaper, which regularly has stories excised by Interior Ministry watchdogs...