Nicaragua is the destination where the Central American press hopes never to arrive: more than 160 journalists in exile and 54 news organizations shuttered by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. In El Salvador, there are multiple alerts that the country is headed in that direction: mass deployment of Pegasus spyware, defamation and the mounting of criminal accusations against journalists, and the closure of news programs. In this podcast produced by El Hilo in collaboration with El Faro English, three journalists in Nicaragua and El Salvador give their first-hand accounts of exile, espionage, and persecution.
The podcast episode is fully available in English…
Exiliados, encarcelados y espiados: el costo de informar en Centroamérica
Este episodio es una coproducción entre El Hilo y El Faro como parte de un proyecto de cobertura de la situación de la prensa en la región, y con el apoyo del Fondo Canadiense de Iniciativas Locales.