Release of newsprint offers “provisional respite” to Nicaragua’s last newspapers

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the release of the newsprint and ink for Nicaragua’s last two independent daily newspapers that had been arbitrarily blocked in customs for the past 18 months. But this provisional respite must not deflect attention from the censorship to which the state has subjected the media since 2018, RSF said.Thanks to mediation by the Vatican representative in Nicaragua*, Papal Nuncio Stanislaw Waldemar Sommertag, the General Directorate of Customs finally agreed on 7 February to allow La Prensa

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