In a letter sent to the director general of Unesco, Audrey Azoulay, the minister referred to the ‘unacceptable and inadmissible’ action of that organization against Nicaragua, by awarding a prize to the newspaper La Prensa of this Central American nation.

La Prensa newspaper represents the vile betrayal of our homeland as it is a media that has promoted and supported violence, interference, hate crimes, cruelty, anti-culture and anti-values throughout history,’ the foreign minister stressed.

He added that it is a media at the service and promotion and defense of U.S. military and political occupations and interventions in Nicaragua.

It is deeply shameful that Unesco is a promoter and evidently an accomplice of an action that offends and attacks the deepest values of Nicaraguan identity and national culture, losing its objectivity and disqualifying itself,’ he stressed.

In this sense, he specified that the Sandinista Executive took the decision to withdraw from Unesco based on article two, paragraph six of the constitution of that organization.

Yesterday, Nicaragua rejected and condemned the recognition as an offensive, humiliating and degrading action, which is added to the wave of despicable surrender that plagues and ravages international organizations, and particularly those that, from the UN, ‘should defend principles and values of the human family’.

As it was reported, the aforementioned Nicaraguan newspaper, currently operating digitally, was awarded the Unesco/Guillermo Cano 2025 World Press Freedom Prize.

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