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Nicaraguan Daily Claims Presses Sabotaged
MANAGUA – Nicaraguan daily La Prensa, a
critic of the Sandinista government,
reported in its Thursday edition that its
presses had been damaged as a result of
“sabotage” but added that the daily’s
circulation had not been impeded.
The paper’s chief printer, Alvaro Rivera, as
well as engineers in charge of maintenance
for the company’s equipment did not rule out
that “there could have been political intent
in this attack that strikes at the heart of
the newspaper.”
However, the La Prensa technicians did not
suggest possible authors of the alleged
sabotage or divulge whether they will file a
criminal complaint with the authorities on
the deed, which occurred in a highly
restricted area of the firm’s facilities.
The technicians, who did not specify the
date of the alleged sabotage, said that the
damage was discovered after abnormal noises
were heard during the operation of the press
and it was subsequently found that gears in
the transmission box were broken and that
the oil reservoir contained objects that did
not belong to the newspaper.
La Prensa, founded in 1926, said that the
damage comes “at a time when the government
(of Daniel Ortega) is pursuing more
aggressive discourse against the independent
communications media.”
It also noted that last week, pro-government
mobs fired large firecrackers with homemade
mortars at the facilities of the dailies La
Prensa and Hoy on the northern outskirts of
Managua. EFE |
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