{"id":184249,"date":"2026-03-01T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/the-first-30-years-of-confidencial\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:07:29","slug":"the-first-30-years-of-confidencial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/the-first-30-years-of-confidencial\/","title":{"rendered":"The First 30 Years of CONFIDENCIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On National Journalist Day, we share good news for press freedom and freedom of expression in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n\n<p>On July 7, 2026, CONFIDENCIAL will complete its first 30 years of work, practicing the best journalism possible to investigate and tell the truth. <\/p>\n\n<p>We were born in 1996, as witnesses and participants in Nicaragua\u2019s democratic transition. Three decades later, we face the Ortega-Murillo totalitarian dictatorship, confronting censorship every day until freedom is restored.<\/p>\n\n<p>These have been 30 years of independent public service journalism. Three decades of producing journalism that serves citizens \u2014 accompanying them as they make their own decisions in building a freer, more just, and more democratic society.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-periodismo-de-servicio-publico-fiscalizar-el-poder-y-promover-el-debate\"><strong>Public Service Journalism: Holding Power Accountable and Promoting Debate<br\/><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>When we founded <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> as a 16-page weekly print<em> <\/em>newsletter, our first goal was to create a trustworthy news outlet that would fill the gap<strong> <\/strong>in analysis and investigative reporting in newspapers and television. <\/p>\n\n<p>Our second goal, even more ambitious, was to build an influential outlet capable of holding power accountable and promoting public debate, in order to strengthen Nicaragua\u2019s emerging democracy.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>From our very first edition, our calling has been to uncover what those in power try to hide, to rigorously verify information, and to explain the consequences of the news.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>We set out to report on current events while also investigating issues in depth to tell meaningful stories. Not to be the first to repeat versions circulating on social media, but to provide only confirmed and verified information. We have always tried to remain faithful to that commitment. <\/p>\n\n<p>At <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>, we brought together the best journalists of the new generations of reporters, audiovisual producers, and professional editors to renew journalism and the way stories are told.<\/p>\n\n<p>Thanks to the technological revolution, new paths opened for producing quality journalism for mass audiences \u2014 first through the program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ConfidencialNica\"><em>Esta Semana<\/em><\/a> on Channels 2, 8, and 12, and later through the internet and social media.<\/p>\n\n<p>Since 2010, <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> has operated as a digital daily, bringing together its investigative newsroom, the television programs <em>Esta Semana<\/em> and <em>Esta Noche<\/em>, and <em>Ni\u00fa<\/em> magazine on a single multimedia platform.<\/p>\n\n<p>In this way, we expanded to new audiences as a reference outlet committed to transparency, the defense of human rights, and accountability in the exercise of power.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-la-corrupcion-la-captura-del-estado-y-el-desmontaje-de-la-democracia-nbsp\"><strong>Corruption, State Capture, and the Dismantling of Democracy <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Over these 30 years, <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> has investigated dozens of emblematic cases of public corruption, state capture, and the dismantling of democracy: <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Superhighway and Arnoldo Alem\u00e1n\u2019s Hidden Fortune,\u201d and \u201cByron Jerez\u2019s Terrace in Pochomil,\u201d built with funds intended for victims of Hurricane Mitch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Alem\u00e1n-Ortega Pact and the Division of State Powers,\u201d and \u201cThe Route of FSLN Electoral Fraud in the 2008 Elections.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RjdM4oYZwrE\">Extortion in Tola,<\/a>\u201d the first major corruption case of Daniel Ortega\u2019s government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Illegal Tax Exemption for the Pellas Tower,\u201d \u201cTax Breaks for Big Business,\u201d and \u201cAuthoritarian Corporatism and the Cosep Model.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The aftermath of environmental plunder in \u201cEmergency in the Forest,\u201d \u201cThe Granadillo Mafia,\u201d and \u201cThe Decline of Bosawas.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Web of Chinese Businessman Wang Jing and the Great Interoceanic Canal Scam,\u201d and the resistance of the peasant movement. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cCorruption and the Million-Dollar Dance of Venezuelan Petro-Dollars,\u201d \u201cThe Business Piggy Bank of Albanisa and Caruna,\u201d and migrant smuggling networks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cDaniel Ortega\u2019s Rings of Power,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/el-nuevo-mapa-del-poder-en-nicaragua-serie-especial-completa\/\">\u201cRosario Murillo\u2019s New Power Operators.\u201d<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe 39 Fake Antennas that Monitor Cell Phones,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/politica\/el-centro-de-espionaje-de-rusia-en-el-cerro-mokoron-de-nicaragua\/\">\u201cThe Russian Espionage Center at the Mokor\u00f3n Military Base.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Private Business Network of the Ortega-Murillo Family Under State Protection,\u201d energy distribution deals, \u201cCredicoop\u2019s Slush Fund,\u201d and \u201cThe Dictators\u2019 Grandson\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/confidencialtv\/el-millonario-negocio-de-la-paqueteria-en-nicaragua\/\"> Parcel Delivery Business<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/especiales\/investigacion-los-negocios-con-las-viviendas-bismarck-martinez\/\">\u201cThe \u2018Social Housing\u2019 Business of the Managua Mayor\u2019s Office,\u201d<\/a> and the major fraud of false solidarity tied to loans from the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rosario Murillo\u2019s endless \u201cpurge\u201d to decapitate \u201chistoric Sandinismo\u201d and imprison operators loyal to Daniel Ortega.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-el-dolor-de-las-victimas-la-demanda-de-verdad-y-justicia-sin-impunidad\"><strong>The Pain of the Victims: The Demand for Truth and Justice Without Impunity<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Over these 30 years, we have also investigated and told the stories of the collective suffering of the victims of repression, and of their demands for truth and justice that the dictatorship seeks to erase and silence:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The order to <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/principal\/el-dia-despues-de-vamos-con-todo\/\">\u201cGo all in\u201d <\/a>against the April 2018 Rebellion; the police and paramilitaries who were \u201cShooting to kill\u201d; and the \u201cCaravans of Death\u201d that spread terror across Nicaragua.<br\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe May 30 Massacre,\u201d \u201cThe Attack on UNAN and the Divine Mercy Church,\u201d and \u201cOperation Clean-Up\u201d against Monimb\u00f3, L\u00f3vago, and Carazo. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cExtrajudicial Executions in the Countryside,\u201d \u201cThe 19 Minors Killed by the Dictatorship,\u201d and \u201cThe Mothers Who Became the Mothers of April.\u201d<br\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cOfficial Negligence and the Spread of the Pandemic,\u201d and \u201cExcess Covid-19 Deaths Concealed by the Health Ministry.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Machinery of Torture Against Political Prisoners,\u201d and \u201cThe Police as Enforcers of the Police State.\u201d<br\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Surrender of General Avil\u00e9s,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/especiales\/los-militares-millonarios-de-daniel-ortega\/\">\u201cThe Army\u2019s Complicity,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Wall of the 25 Generals.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThe Machinery of Exile, Statelessness, and Crimes Against Humanity,\u201d and \u201cThe Persecution of the Catholic Church and the 39 Church Properties Confiscated.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>This is the journalism the dictatorship has criminalized and seeks to discredit as \u201ccoup-mongering\u201d \u2014 for the alleged crime of informing, explaining, investigating in depth, and telling the truth.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-la-confianza-de-nuestras-audiencias-y-la-reinvencion-del-periodismo\"><strong>The Trust of Our Audiences and the Reinvention of Journalism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>Because of the rigor and quality of its journalism, <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> has become the leading international reference outlet on Nicaragua. It is also a media organization that covers the broader region for its audiences inside Nicaragua and for the Nicaraguan diaspora in the United States, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Central America \u2014 as well as in Spain, across Europe, and in every country where our audiences have made their home. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> reaches its first 30 years as a media outlet that was illegally confiscated, with its offices raided twice by the police, and its entire newsroom forced to work from exile.<\/p>\n\n<p>The dictatorship stole our newsroom, our computers, and our television equipment \u2014 but it could never confiscate our journalism.<\/p>\n\n<p>They criminalized our advertisers in an attempt to suffocate us financially, but they were never able to strip us of the trust of our audiences. <\/p>\n\n<p>They tried to silence us by every means possible \u2014 and we kept doing journalism.<br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Over these 30 years, <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> and its journalists have been honored with professional recognition from institutions such as Columbia University, the Gabo Foundation, the Inter American Press Association, Agencia EFE and the King of Spain Awards, the Latin American Conference on Investigative Journalism, <em>El Pa\u00eds\u2019s<\/em> Ortega y Gasset Prize, the Golden Pen of the World Association of News Publishers, and many others that distinguish our work among the best in international journalism.<\/p>\n\n<p>But the most important award of all has been maintaining the trust our audiences place in us.<\/p>\n\n<p>When no law or institution can protect journalism under the collapse of the rule of law, our only protection comes from the credibility of our reporting \u2014 and from the commitment of our journalists to stand by the truth, at any cost, and from their professional talent to continue reinventing journalism, even from exile.<\/p>\n\n<p>For <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>, reinventing journalism is not an aesthetic change, but a strategy of resistance and sustainability. <\/p>\n\n<p>We reinvented ourselves when, after the raid on our newsroom and television censorship, we became a fully digital outlet and reconnected with audiences who seek us out through their cell phones.<\/p>\n\n<p>We reinvented ourselves by transforming the trauma of exile into a transnational newsroom that, despite the persecution of our journalists and sources, continues reporting inside Nicaragua \u2014 jumping over walls of censorship and digital blocks.<br\/> <\/p>\n\n<p>We reinvented ourselves by transforming the language of investigative reporting into innovative formats and new narratives to connect with new generations and build a community.<\/p>\n\n<p>In essence, we have reinvented ourselves while keeping intact the journalistic rigor and ethics that have inspired us since 1996 \u2014 because we refuse to be silenced and we continue telling the truth. <\/p>\n\n<p>That is our commitment as we celebrate our 30th anniversary: to practice the best journalism possible for our audiences and to continue renewing journalism amid censorship and disinformation. <\/p>\n\n<p>We salute and congratulate the entire family of <em>La Prensa<\/em>, the dean of national journalism \u2014 its leadership, journalists, and audiences \u2014 which on March 2 celebrates 100 years of work.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 2026, Nicaraguans are called upon to celebrate these two anniversaries: the 100 years of <em>La Prensa<\/em> and the first 30 years of <strong>CONFIDENCIAL,<\/strong> until we fully achieve press freedom and freedom of expression. <\/p>\n\n<p>And we invite you, starting now, to take part in the forums, events, and activities we will convene in 2026 to celebrate this great milestone of independent journalism in Nicaragua.<br\/><br\/>Thank you to all our audiences, to the international press, and to the institutions that support CONFIDENCIAL\u2019s independent journalism for your solidarity during the most difficult moments of these 30 years. 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