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This chapter focuses on the Pacific region and examines the disruption of Sandinista control over the Nicaraguan mediascape through the interventions of ordinary citizens. It analyzes the mediation of a shooting during an opposition protest in Managua, a protest in the mining community of Mina El Limón, and a march against the interoceanic canal to show how the new media environment complicates the government’s efforts to control the meanings that are attached to such events.
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For instance, on 18 October 2015, CENIDH sent out the following two tweets:
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‘they are preventing us from doing our job. Comm Cuadra said “I have orders from above not to let in the media nor you people from cenidh”’ (‘impiden realizar nuestra labour. Com Cuadra dijo “tengo ordenes superior de no dejar pasar los medios de comunicación ni ustedes del cenidh”’).
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‘Inhabitants refute the news item from canal 4, it is not true that calm returned, the village of Mina is militarized’ (‘Pobladores desmienten noticia del canal 4, no es cierto q volvio la calma lo q hay es un estado de sitio, pueblo dela Mina esta militarizado’).
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Daniel Ortega says of the US government that ‘it presents itself as the most exemplary democracy in the world, when in reality it is the most enormous and most striking tyranny and dictatorship that has existed in all of humanity’ (Nole Importa 2012).
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This page is available here: https://www.facebook.com/mvallejotv/posts/1725368464349367.
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For a complete list of human rights organizations that condemned the FSLN’s actions, see CENIDH (2016).
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Cupples, J., Glynn, K. (2018). Mediated Activism in the Pacific. In: Shifting Nicaraguan Mediascapes. SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64319-9_5
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