Nicaraguan newspaper: Journalist flees after threat from government supporters

[naaman fletcher]

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — A Nicaraguan newspaper said Saturday that one of its reporters has fled to the United States following what she described as threats from supporters of the ruling Sandinista party.

The director of the El Nuevo Diario newspaper, Francisco Chamorro, said the newspaper had complained to international press freedom groups about the threats against reporter Silvia Gonzalez.



Gonzalez said she had received telephone threats, and Chamorro said someone also threw a severed chicken head onto Gonzalez’s patio, with her name on it.

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