La Prensa

Jaime Chamorro Cardenal is a top editor of La Prensa, the independent Nicaraguan newspaper with which his family has been involved for decades. Since its founding over sixty years ago, La Prensa has served as the conscience of Nicaragua, a nation oppressed first by one dictatorship and then another. This is the story of that newspaper's struggle to maintain an honest and critical relationship with its readers while at the same time maintaining its foothold on a rocky and ever-changing political terrain. This book details past and present governmental abuse of Nicaraguan civil liberties, human rights, and press censorship. In doing so, it gives a compelling account of Nicaragua's two twentieth-century dictatorships-and how one newspaper managed to challenge and frighten both.