Posted on 12/22/2018 7:38:21 AM PST by george76
Nicaraguan authorities have raided the offices of a critical television station and shut it down, a week after raiding the offices of non-governmental groups and a newspaper.
Lucia Pineda, press director for the 100% Noticias station, sent WhatsApp messages to other journalists saying that station director Miguel Mora was detained during the Friday night raid. Backers of President Daniel Ortega had filed criminal complaints accusing Mora of generating hate and during a wave of anti-government protests that broke out in April.
Pineda also said police were taking away control equipment from the station, which went off the air. Other journalists said they were unable to contact her after those messages
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Police on Dec. 14 raided four non-governmental groups, including the Nicaragua Center for Human Rights, in addition to the newspaper Confidencial. Their offices were seized. The 100% Noticias station also had been forced off the air for several days in April, but was allowed to return.
Seventy-three-year-old President Daniel Ortega has been using a hard hand against protests that erupted in April, which initially denounced a social security cut but later turned into demands for his resignation.
At least 325 people have been killed since protests erupted, and the human rights center said before it was raided that some 565 people have been jailed. Thousands have fled the country in self-imposed exile.
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Pinkos doing what Pinkos do.
“It’s for the children”
Soundslike like a Democratic Crime Syndicate dream.
“Generating hate”. Imagine if that were a chargeable offense here!
Be a pity if a Miskito Indian with a grudge got him with an inconvenient arrow.
In civilized societies the government has private companies do it for them. It’s uncouth for the government to silence Alex Jones, and Mike Savage, and Tucker. So in our Advanced Society, the Democratic Party soon’s private-sector minions to do this. It’s much more orderly, and follows the written law
Exactly what Democrats would do if they could.
Let’s see how upset our media gets about this - considering that the newspaper was fighting the ‘progressive’ government there. Expecting crickets.
Ah. The socialistic government responds to criticism by shutting it down. Onward oh progressive worker bees. Forward toward 1984 we go together.
This gives the Nicaraguan illegals
a just cause for their asylum claims.
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