MEXICO CITY—Dozens of Nicaraguan policemen stormed the offices of a leading news outlet, part of a growing crackdown on domestic dissent by the increasingly authoritarian regime of President Daniel Ortega. Officers broke into the newsroom of Confidencial, a news website and magazine that also produces cable news programming, located in the country’s capital of Managua. The raid occurred around midnight Thursday, with police ransacking offices and taking more than a dozen computers and laptops, said Carlos Fernando Chamorro,...
Source: Wall Street Journal December 14, 2018 22:30 UTC