Nicaragua Withdraws From UNESCO After La Prensa Wins Press Freedom Award

Nicaragua’s “co-president,” Rosario Murillo, spent three days enraged by the World Press Freedom Award that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) handed to the newspaper La Prensa on May 3. She issued a statement full of poisoned epithets against the newspaper and the United Nations agency; she followed the insults in her daily speech broadcast on television, to the point that her Government withdrew Nicar…

Nicaragua Withdraws From UNESCO After La Prensa Wins Press Freedom Award

Nicaragua has officially announced its decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after the organization awarded the 2025 Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize to Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa. The World Press Freedom Prize was created in 1997 and is the only U.N. prize awarded to journalists, making La Prensa’s selection a very significant international recognition. The Nicaraguan…