Word: prensa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days after Cardenal's expulsion, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., editor of La Prensa, the country's only opposition paper, announced that he had temporarily moved to Costa Rica. Chamorro charged that censorship and travel restrictions had grown so severe since last month's national elections that life had become "impossible." It is a measure of the task facing the contras that they have so far been unable to turn discontent like Chamorro's into support for their own cause. -By James Kelly...
...said. If the Sandinistas' response to news coverage of Godoy's withdrawal is any indication, they are not likely to relax their tight control over the country once they are elected. The story was so heavily censored in the country's leading opposition daily, La Prensa, that the publisher decided to scrap that day's edition...
...backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...
There will be considerable tension on June 30, the date by which the government must come up with $1.6 billion in foreign-debt payments. Quips Máximo Gainza, director of the right-wing La Prensa (circ. 50,000): "Our external debt is becoming an eternal debt...
...recognize that we've committed arbitrary acts against Nicaraguans of Miskito origin," said Minister of the Interior Tdmas Borge Martinez in a rare apology. Sandinista officials have for months privately confessed their gross mishandling of the Miskito issue. Borge also met with editors of the daily La Prensa and promised that its criticism of the Sandinista government would not be censored, as it has been in the past. The government even gave the economically shaky newspaper funds to buy scarce and expensive newsprint, the shortage of which brought La Prensa to the brink of shutdown last week. The Sandinistas...