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- To the dozens of journalists from several generations\u2014reporters, editors, video producers, photographers, and graphic designers\u2014who have made this news outlet a laboratory for renewing investigative and narrative journalism and for finding new ways to tell stories; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- To the audiences who first read us in print and watched us on television, then followed us from television to YouTube when broadcast censorship<\/a> was imposed, as well as the digital natives and the overwhelming majority who now follow us on their mobile phones; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- To the sources who continue to place their trust in the rigor of our journalists, providing us with information of the highest public interest about corruption and the workings of power; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- To our commercial advertisers, our international donors, and especially to our audiences, whose contributions provide the financial foundation for our editorial independence. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- And to the unwavering support of my family, who, despite the reprisals and the cruelty of repression, have never accepted silence or self-censorship as an option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Our deepest thanks to all of you for making it possible for us to practice journalism at CONFIDENCIAL throughout these first thirty years.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n
We were founded in 1996<\/a>, as both witnesses to and participants in Nicaragua’s democratic transition. Three decades later, we are confronting the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, which in 2021 ordered the confiscation of CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>. But it has never been able to confiscate our journalism. <\/p>\n\n
Here we remain, defeating censorship every day until freedom is restored.<\/p>\n\n
These have been 30 years of independent, public-interest journalism, providing our community of readers with information they can rely on to make informed decisions.
When we founded CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong><\/strong> as a 16-page weekly print newsletter, our first goal was to create a trusted news outlet that would fill the gap in investigative reporting and in-depth analysis left by the newspapers and television.
Our second goal\u2014more ambitious still\u2014was to build an influential news organization capable of holding those in power to account and fostering public debate, in order to strengthen Nicaragua’s young democracy.<\/p>\n\n
From our very first edition, our mission has always been to uncover what those in power seek to conceal, rigorously verify information, and explain the significance of the news.
We set out not only to report current events, but also to investigate issues in depth and tell stories that matter. Not to echo the versions of events that now circulate on social media, but to publish only information that has been confirmed and verified. We have always tried to remain true to that commitment, and to correct our mistakes whenever we have made them. <\/p>\n\n
The technological revolution opened up broad new opportunities to produce quality journalism for mass audiences\u2014first through Esta Semana<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on Channels 2, 8, and 12, and later through the internet and social media.
In 2010, the weekly CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> became a digital daily, bringing together on a single multimedia platform its investigative journalism, the television programs Esta Semana<\/em><\/strong> and Esta Noche<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> and Ni\u00fa<\/em><\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n\n
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<\/figure>\n30 Years, 30 Covers: A Selection of Landmark Issues<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
This is how we grew and reached new audiences, becoming a trusted news outlet committed to transparency, government accountability, and the promotion of democracy and human rights.<\/p>\n\n
Over these 30 years, CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> has investigated dozens of emblematic cases of public corruption, state capture, and the dismantling of democracy: <\/p>\n\n
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- “The Superhighway and Arnoldo Alem\u00e1n’s Hidden Fortune”<\/a> and “Byron Jerez’s Beachfront Terrace in Pochomil,” <\/a>built with funds intended for victims of Hurricane Mitch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- \u201cThe Alem\u00e1n-Ortega Pact and the Division of State Powers,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Route of FSLN Electoral Fraud in the 2008 Elections.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- “Extortion in Tola,” <\/a>the first major corruption scandal of Daniel Ortega’s government, published in August 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- “The Illegal Tax Exemption for the Pellas Tower,”<\/a> “Tax Exemptions for Big Business,” and “Authoritarian Corporatism and the COSEP Model.”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- The aftermath of environmental destruction in “Emergency in the Forest<\/a>,” “The Granadillo Mafia,”<\/a> and “The Decline of Bosaw\u00e1s.”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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- “The Web of Chinese Businessman Wang Jing,”<\/a> “The Great Interoceanic Canal Scam,<\/a>” and the resistance of the campesino movement.<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- The aftermath of environmental destruction in “Emergency in the Forest<\/a>,” “The Granadillo Mafia,”<\/a> and “The Decline of Bosaw\u00e1s.”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- “The Illegal Tax Exemption for the Pellas Tower,”<\/a> “Tax Exemptions for Big Business,” and “Authoritarian Corporatism and the COSEP Model.”<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- “Extortion in Tola,” <\/a>the first major corruption scandal of Daniel Ortega’s government, published in August 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- \u201cThe Alem\u00e1n-Ortega Pact and the Division of State Powers,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Route of FSLN Electoral Fraud in the 2008 Elections.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- “The Superhighway and Arnoldo Alem\u00e1n’s Hidden Fortune”<\/a> and “Byron Jerez’s Beachfront Terrace in Pochomil,” <\/a>built with funds intended for victims of Hurricane Mitch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- And to the unwavering support of my family, who, despite the reprisals and the cruelty of repression, have never accepted silence or self-censorship as an option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- To our commercial advertisers, our international donors, and especially to our audiences, whose contributions provide the financial foundation for our editorial independence. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- To the sources who continue to place their trust in the rigor of our journalists, providing us with information of the highest public interest about corruption and the workings of power; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
- To the audiences who first read us in print and watched us on television, then followed us from television to YouTube when broadcast censorship<\/a> was imposed, as well as the digital natives and the overwhelming majority who now follow us on their mobile phones; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n