Isidro Ignacio Téllez Toruño (born c. 1948) is a

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n politician and

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ist.''La Prensa''.
Ortega “secuestra” al sindicalismo
' He served as general secretary of the

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(MAP-ML) and is a veteran leader of ''

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'' ('Workers' Front'). He hails from a family of farm workers in León. In early 1980, he was sentenced to two years of prison labour for statements expressed in the MAP-ML organ '' El Pueblo'', deemed counter-revolutionary by the new government. Téllez Toruño and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour. Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the

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, obtaining 11,352 votes. Téllez Toruño represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990. Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the

1990 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 25 February 1990 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p489 The result was a victory for the Nat ...

.Carter Center.
Observing Nicaragua's Elections, 1989-1990
' The ticket got 8,115 votes nationwide. In a statement on

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2017, he denounced that

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had 'hijacked the trade union movement' and called the policies of the Sandinista government 'anti-labour'.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tellez Toruno, Isidro Nicaraguan trade unionists Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement politicians Members of the National Assembly (Nicaragua) People from León, Nicaragua 1940s births Year of birth uncertain Living people