Nicaraguan Official
Denies Purchase of TV Station
MANAGUA - Bayardo Arce, the top economic
adviser of President Daniel Ortega, said on
Tuesday that the Nicaraguan government "did
not purchase" the private TV network Canal 8
(Telenica) as Rafael Paniagua, a Venezuelan
official and general manager of Albanisa,
said last week. Arce claimed that Paniagua
"is crazy" and "spoke too much."
In an interview with Canal 12, a Nicaraguan
TV station, Arce lashed out at the
Venezuelan official Rafael Paniagua, who
said that Alba de Nicaragua (Albanisa), a
company set up by Presidents Daniel Ortega
and Hugo Chávez, purchased the TV network
Canal 8 for about USD 10 million, DPA
reported.
"In the case of Canal 8, the government has
not invested any money. We have not invested
a penny to buy a radio, a TV station or a
flea market," Ortega's senior adviser said.
When Arce was asked why Paniagua said that
Chávez had "a project to build a country" in
Nicaragua, he said that Paniagua spoke "too
much."
"Chávez will have a project to rebuild
Venezuela, but he has no project in
Nicaragua," Arce said.
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