The Journalist Daniel Ortega Couldn’t Silence
Carlos Fernando Chamorro examines Nicaragua’s prospects for political change and the role of journalism in exile.
When Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega announced in July that the country would no longer hold elections, Carlos Fernando Chamorro wasn’t surprised. “Why is Ortega making a statement about something that is already happening in the country” thought the journalist, a longtime critic of the 80-year-old Sandinista leader who has ruled Nicaragua for almost two decades. Despite living in exile since 2021, Chamorro, 70, still begins each day “in” Nicaragua. In May of that year, government authorities raided the newsroom of the multimedia outlet he founded, Confidencial,...
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