Nicaragua
Opposition Denounces Cancelation of Radio
Frequency
Managua – The coordinator of the Sandinista
Renewal Movement, or MRS, Edmundo Jarquin,
denounced on Saturday the cancelation of the
frequency of Radio La Ley, a station in the
interior owned by an opposition commentator,
a measure he calls “an outrage.”
Nicaragua’s telecommunications and postal
institute TELCOR, according to an article in
the daily La Prensa, canceled Friday the
frequency of the radio station belonging to
Santiago Aburto and whose inauguration was
planned for this Saturday in Sebaco in the
northern province of Matagalpa.
According to the source, the
telecommunication sector’s regulatory body
canceled the frequency for Aburto due to
alleged infractions of the law that awards
licenses to companies, individuals and legal
entities that operate radio, television and
cable TV.
Aburto said that about 30 armed civilians
came on Friday to remove him from his house
where he has the radio station’s studios,
equipment, transmitters and other
accessories valued at close to $10,000.
The radio station’s owner attributes the
cancelation of the frequency to a reprisal
by the government for the critical
commentaries he makes on a program broadcast
on Radio Corporacion in the nation’s
capital.
Jarquin told Efe he supports Aburto in this
and believes that the cancelation of the
frequency is not only directed against the
radio commentator but against freedom of
speech in Nicaragua.
“This is a measure against all Nicaraguans
that once again shows the authoritarian,
dictatorial nature of the Daniel Ortega
government,” said Jarquin, whose
organization is made up of dissident
Sandinistas. |
