Nicaragua-Exiled Dissident
FILE - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, arrive at the Juan Pablo II plaza to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday, July 19, 2018.
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A clandestine opposition movement remains active in Nicaragua, but options for restoring democracy in the Central American country are dwindling. That’s according to a former presidential challenger and political prisoner, Félix Maradiaga, who spoke in an interview to The Associated Press from his forced exile in the United States. Maradiaga had to flee his country several times — and was finally imprisoned and later deported. He was among 222 political, student and faith leaders taken in February 2023 from some of Nicaragua’s prisons and flown to the United States. Shortly after, the Ortega government stripped them of their citizenship shortly after.