"Nicaraguan journalism is facing an 'unprecedented crisis' with the politically motivated closure of at least 61 media outlets, including the newspaper La Prensa and the platforms Confidencial and 100% Noticias, the Costa Rica-based Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy (FLED) warned Monday, Sept. 29.
In a report titled Nicaragua: Journalistic memory and the fight for truth, FLED also said at least 293 Nicaraguan media workers, most of them reporters, have left the country for security reasons or have been expelled since April 2018.
'This report documents an unprecedented crisis in civil and political rights tied to the practice of journalism in Nicaragua, marked by a systematic pattern of state repression against journalists and media workers,' the NGO said in the study, which covers April 2018 to April 2025."
