Nicaragua

Death threats have been made against Nicaraguan investigative reporter Luis Galeano in the lead-up to the publication of a series of articles on official corruption. Galeano and his colleague José Adán Silva, reporters with the Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario, had been investigating allegations of embezzlement within Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council, El Nuevo Diario reported. On Saturday...

The Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario has been under pressure since the start of the year. One of its reporters, Luis Galeano, has received death threats over two sensational corruption stories he wrote for the newspaper, one in January and the other in February. At the same time, its management accuses the authorities of obstructing importation of the inputs it needs to print, Paris-based press...

The Nicaraguan Centre for Human Rights (CENIDH) announced that in the coming weeks it will present a report to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (CIDH) about press freedom violations in the country, AFP reports. In recent months, two newspapers have alleged persecution at the hands of President Daniel Ortega, while an opposition TV network went off the the air several days ago. From the...