Max Blumenthal, July 19th 2018
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1020027741679349761.html
Today’s the 39 anniversary of the Sandinista revolution. Managua is out to celebrate the apparent defeat of a soft coup that paralyzed #Nicaragua. I’m here to document a side of the story omitted by Western media. A thread follows on some of what I’ve learned. Vid & print later.


Staff of @nuevaya work out of a small makeshift office now. Those working the night shift must sleep in to avoid right-wing violence. “We are hunted by hit men,” station director Denis Schwartz told me. Its sports reporters were recently accosted by gunmen on motorcycles. 





.@nuevaya’s Schwartz told me he informed the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights about the torching of his station by opposition militants and they ignored him. He said me & my colleagues @danielmkovalik & @ThomasHedgesTRN are the first Western reporters to interview him.