Interview with Carlos F. Chamorro
“Criminalization of press freedom and expression” has led to journalism being done only “from exile” in Nicaragua, notes Carlos F. Chamorro.
HAVANA TIMES – Practicing journalism in Nicaragua is equivalent to committing a “crime of “terrorism”, denounced Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro, who went into exile in Costa Rica due to threats he received for doing independent journalism in his country.
“In Nicaragua, practicing journalism means that the regime fabricates the crime of terrorism and incitement to hatred against reporter,” said Chamorro in an interview with EFE in Madrid, addressing the censorship imposed by Nicaragua’s president, Daniel Ortega.
In recent years, the Nicaraguan government “suspended and confiscated several independent media outlets” and “closed universities” dedicated to teaching journalism, such as the campus of the Central American University (UCA) in Nicaragua, because “doing journalism” or “expr