Suyén Barahona

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Suyén Barahona
Suyén Barahona August 2018 b (cropped).jpg
Barahona in 2018
Born
Suyén Barahona Cuan
NationalityNicaragua
TitlePresident
Term2017-present
PredecessorAna Margarita Vijil
Political partyDemocratic Renewal Union

Suyén Barahona Cuan is a Nicaraguan activist. She is president of the  [es] party (Unamos).

Biography[]

Barahona has a degree in international relations.[1] She is an advocate for feminist and environmental causes,[1] and in 2017 she was elected president of the  [es] party (Unamos, successor to the Sandinista Renovation Movement after its legal status was revoked).[2] She was active in the demonstrations calling for justice for those killed and imprisoned since the protests that began in April 2018 and the ensuing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.[2] She and her predecessor at MRS Ana Margarita Vijil were both arrested at a protest on in Managua in October 2018 and held overnight.[3]

Barahona has since joined the opposition group (UNAB) and the of opposition groups, both of which emerged in the wake of the 2018 events.[2]

As president of Unamos, in February 2021 she went to court to challenge the constitutionality of , 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”.[4]

On June 13, 2021, Barahona was among a wave of arrests by the government of Daniel Ortega of opposition pre-candidates for president in the November election as well as other opposition figures and civic leaders.[5] 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.”[6] Arrested the same day were Unamos members Dora María Téllez and Ana Margarita Vijil and Unamos vice-president Hugo Torres Jiménez. Torres and Téllez were former Sandinistas and major figures in the revolution that toppled the Somoza dictatorship.[5] They are being investigated under controversial , passed in December 2020, which allows the government to detain anyone it designates as a “traitor to the homeland”.[5]

Barahona is married to César Dubois and has one son.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Inestroza, Eva (2021-06-23). "Estos son los 20 nicaragüenses detenidos por el régimen de Ortega, en 25 días". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 23, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Quiénes son los 20 detenidos por el régimen orteguista en Nicaragua". Confidencial (in Spanish). 2021-06-16. Archived from the original on 2021-06-23. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
  3. ^ Álvarez, Leonor (2018-10-16). "El orteguismo se ensaña con las principales figuras del MRS". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on October 16, 2018. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  4. ^ Álvarez, Leonor (2021-02-16). "Unamos interpone recurso por inconstitucionalidad contra la "Ley Mordaza" ante el poder judicial". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 16, 2020. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Nicaragua arrests 5 more opposition leaders in crackdown". AP NEWS. 2021-06-13. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  6. ^ Cid, Amalia del. "11 Opositores Encarcelados En Las Últimas Semanas; Estos Son Sus Breves Perfiles." Archived 2021-06-23 at the Wayback Machine La Prensa, June 14, 2021, via ProQuest.
  7. ^ Baltodano, Isela; Shiffman, Geovanny (2021-06-24). "El trauma de los niños y las niñas que vieron cómo la Policía orteguista se llevó a sus padres". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
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