La Prensa newspaper of Nicaragua celebrates 100 years with its editorial staff in exile

Nicaragua.- The emblematic Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa celebrated its 100th anniversary last Monday, with most of its editorial staff in exile, its building expropriated by the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, and, as the media highlighted, in resilience and at the “service of freedom“. “Today in La Prensa we celebrate a century of history. We are not in the paper that saw us born, nor in the building that sheltered us for decades, but we are where it matters most: in the search for truth and in the heart of every Nicaraguan,” highlighted that newspaper in its edition this Monday. The newspaper indicated that this March 2 marks a century of “resilience” and “service to freedom” because “each cover” is not just a news item, but “a battle“.

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In a written piece, the general manager of the newspaper and former political prisoner, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro, observed that “ink may run out, paper may be seized, and the printing press may be silenced; but freedom, when it is so deeply rooted in the heart of a nation, always returns to be printed.”

“Today we turn 100 years old and we will continue here! Firm, until God disposes otherwise and sure that Nicaragua will soon be Republic again”, he added.

The executive acknowledged that “these 100 years that we are celebrating today have not been easy” and that, being a newspaper, “it has been much harder.” Holmann Chamorro celebrated, however, that “none of them defeated us and, rather, we have always come out even stronger“, and that, even, “those who did everything to silence us are no longer here and we are still here”.