Pedro X. Molina

Pedro X. Molina is an award-winning political cartoonist and journalist from Nicaragua. His work has featured in major international media outlets, including The Washington Post, the BBC, and POLITICO. Molina has received several awards, including the 2019 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, and the 2018 Excellence in Journalism Award by the Inter American Press Association.

Molina was forced to flee Nicaragua on Christmas Day 2018, following the murder and imprisonment of journalists, and the ransacking of the offices El Confidencial, the newspaper where Molina’s cartoons were frequently published. He was the ICORN resident in Ithaca, NY, USA between 2018 and 2020 through Ithaca City of Asylum.