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Time magazine in 1983 published reports of human rights violations in an article which stated that " According to Nicaragua's Permanent Commission on Human Rights, the regime detains several hundred people a month ; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear.
" Time also interviewed a former deputy chief of Nicaraguan military counterintelligence, who stated that he had fled Nicaragua after being ordered to eliminate 800 Miskito prisoners and make it look like they had died in combat.
Another article described Sandinista neighbourhood " Defense Committees ", modeled on similar Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, which according to critics were used to unleash mobs on anyone who was labeled a counterrevolutionary.
Nicaragua's only opposition newspaper, La Prensa, was subject to strict censorship.
The newspaper's editors were forbidden to print anything negative about the Sandinistas either at home or abroad.

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