Diario Barricada was a nicaragüan newspaper openly aligned with the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional movement (Sandinista Front for National Liberation, FSLN) that ran from 1979 until 1998.
Diario Barricada was a nicaragüan newspaper openly aligned with the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional movement (Sandinista Front for National Liberation, FSLN) that ran from 1979 until 1998.
A short notice on the disappearance of José Antonio Padilla. The newspaper affirms that, upon the decline of the dictatorship, families kept posting information on family members who were abducted by military and paramilitary forces but were never released.
A young woman dressed in military uniform holding the hand of her daughter. Behind her, more soldiers in what appears a training camp or a military station.
An article narrates the detention of eleven young men by military forces of the Somoza dictatorship. The young men had built barricades in their neighborhood and were arrested inside the home of one of them. The article describes the worries of the mothers, who did not receive information about the whereabouts of the "muchachos". The event took place on July 8th, 1979.
A short notice on the disappearance of members of the Sandinista movement. After the triumph of the revolution, several posters and notices appear in the newspaper.
Heroes and Martyrs of the Revolution (left): The newspaper opens a new section to "commemorate heroes and martyrs of the revolution" that constituted an "imperious need for the political formation of our people"
The section follows the innauguration of one of the many galleries built in different neighborhoods of the capital of Nicaragua. In this particular one, there is a photo of family members, mostly children and women.
