Press Freedom Still Under Attack in Nicaragua

Expand Journalists Lucia Pineda and Miguel Mora celebrate their release in Managua on June 11, 2019, after spending almost six months in jail. © 2019 MAYNOR VALENZUELA/AFP via Getty Images “There’s no time for fear when there’s information to get out,” Lucía Pineda told me, reflecting on her six-month imprisonment in Nicaragua and her current life as a journalist in exile. On November 21, she and her co-worker Miguel Mora became the first Nicaraguan journalists to win the Committee to Protect Journalism’s International Press Freedom Award – a tribute to their boundless courage. On December…

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