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Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

, other_names = , siglum = , citizenship = , education = , alma_mater = , occupation = , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , known_for = , notable_works = , style = , title = President , term = 2017-present , predecessor =

Ana Margarita Vijil use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> , death_place = , death_cause = , body_discovered = , resting_place = , resting_place_coordinates ...

, successor = , party = Democratic Renewal Union , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , callsign = , awards = , website = , module = , module2 = , module3 = , module4 = , module5 = , module6 = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Suyén Barahona Cuan is a Nicaraguan activist. She is president of the party (Unamos), an opposition group that is the successor to the

Sandinista Renovation Movement The Sandinista Renovation Movement (''Movimiento Renovador Sandinista'' or MRS, in Spanish) is a Nicaraguan political party founded on 21 May 1995. It defines itself as a democratic and progressive party, made of women and men, which promotes the ...

. She is also a member of the

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opposition group that formed following the outbreak of anti-government protests in April 2018. In June 2021, she was arrested alongside other opposition figures and pre-candidates for president in the

2021 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 7 November 2021 to elect the President, the National Assembly and members of the Central American Parliament. President Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front sought re-election, ...

Biography

Barahona has a degree in international relations. She is an advocate for feminist and environmental causes, and in 2017 she was elected president of the party (Unamos, successor to the

after its legal status was revoked). She was active in the demonstrations calling for justice for those killed and imprisoned since the protests that began in April 2018 and the ensuing bloody government crackdown. She and her predecessor at MRS

were both arrested at a protest on Camino de Oriente in Managua in October 2018 and held overnight. Barahona has since joined the

opposition group (UNAB) and the National Coalition of opposition groups, both of which emerged in the wake of the 2018 events. As president of Unamos, in February 2021 she went to court to challenge the constitutionality of

Law 1042 Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vari ...

, known as the “Gag Law” which the FSLN-controlled legislature passed in October 2020, granting the government sweeping power to suppress dissidence online as “cybercrime”. On June 13, 2021, Barahona was among a wave of arrests by the government of

Daniel Ortega José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguans, Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as coordinator of the ...

of opposition pre-candidates for president in the November election as well as other opposition figures and civic leaders. She left a video that said, “If you are watching this video, it is because the Police have raided my house and kidnapped me as they have done with others.”Cid, Amalia del
"11 Opositores Encarcelados En Las Últimas Semanas; Estos Son Sus Breves Perfiles."
''La Prensa'', June 14, 2021, via ProQuest. Arrested the same day were Unamos members

Dora María Téllez Dora María Téllez Argüello (born 1955) is a Nicaraguan historian known for her involvement in the Nicaraguan Revolution. As a young university medical student in León in the 1970s, Téllez was recruited by the Sandinista National Liberation ...

and

and Unamos vice-president

Hugo Torres Jiménez Hugo Torres Jiménez (25 April 1948 – 11 February 2022) was a Nicaraguan Sandinista guerrilla and military leader who was a brigadier general in the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. During the Sandinista National Liberation Front effort to overthrow ...

. Torres and Téllez were former Sandinistas and major figures in the revolution that toppled the Somoza dictatorship. They are being investigated under controversial

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, passed in December 2020, which allows the government to detain anyone it designates as a “traitor to the homeland”. Barahona is married to César Dubois and has one son.

References

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