Two Nicaraguan newspapers, El Nuevo Diario and Metro,
announced they were closing down last week, Reuters reported.
The papers
blamed adverse economic conditions. Metro is a free paper. El Nuevo Diario is
seen as the second major paper in Nicaragua
The country has been struggling with a
political crisis since 2018. More than 300 people have died in the crisis,
Reuters said.
The papers
had said the government of President Daniel Ortega had stymied newsprint
imports, Reuters reported.
Last
Friday’s print edition was the last for both papers. There are no plans for the
papers to produce news online, Reuters said.
“We thank our
subscribers for their loyalty and we will now be in a process of reimbursing
the outstanding balance of the subscriptions,” El Nuevo Diario wrote in an
editorial published on its website.
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