Undue Process
Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega has imprisoned hundreds of dissidents. We spoke with one of them.
Huge demonstrations broke out in Nicaragua in 2018. This one, in Managua on Aug. 18 that year, called for the release of hundreds of political prisoners. President Daniel Ortega was once a romanticized leftist rebel who helped bring down the Somoza dictatorship in the 1970s. Now, observers say, he has turned into a dictator himself.
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Félix Maradiaga spent more than 600 days in a jail in Nicaragua. Held in solitary confinement for most of that time, he faced beatings and constant interrogation. Why? Because he stood up against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. Since 2007, Ortega has dismantled checks on his power. In 2018, his police cracked down on mass protests, killing some 300 demonstrators and bystanders. Today, Maradiaga lives in exile and campaigns against the use of arbitrary detention in his native country and around the world.
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