“They will be the buried,” said La Prensa newspaper, the oldest in the world, on Wednesday Nicaraguato the government of President Daniel Ortega, a day after the Nicaraguan state formalized the expropriation of its headquarters.
“They want to bury us again, and as has happened on other occasions, they will be buried,” the board of directors of that newspaper, founded in 1926, said in a public statement.
The government on Tuesday, through the attorney general’s office, handed over to the National Institute of Technology (Inatec) the deed of the building where La Prensa worked, which had been occupied by the police for a year.
The authorities will build this industrial factory, valued by the press in about 10 million dollars, the Cultural and Polytechnic Center “José Coronel Urtecho, The past will not return”.
In the document, titled “The past is them,” the newspaper emphasized that since March 1926, when it was founded, La Prensa “consistent with its commitment to cultivate and promote values so essential to Nicaraguans, such as truth , justice, the defense of civil liberties and democracy”.
And that adopting those “values with honesty and determination, and not with empty rhetoric,” has involved “taking very serious risks,” because “the abuses, lies, authoritarianism and corruption, among other anti-values, have representatives who are very be powerful and cruel” in Nicaraguahe added.
Source: El heraldo
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