14 August 2005
Rony Adolfo Olivas
Shooting
A correspondent for the daily newspaper La Prensa was shot dead in the city of Estelí, 150 km north of Managua.
Olivas also reported for the radio station Liberación and was president of the Estelí branch of the Nicaraguan Journalists Union (Unión de Periodistas de Nicaragua - UPN). He had recently written articles on drug trafficking and had received death threats.
