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 UNAMOS, the Democratic Renewal Union (), formerly the Sandinista Renovation Movement (), is a Nicaraguan political party founded in 1995. It defines itself as a democratic and progressive party, made of people of all genders, that promotes the con ...

. She is also a member of the Blue and White National Unity 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, w ...

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after its legal status was revoked).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 Ana Margarita Vijil were both arrested at a protest on Camino de Oriente in Managua in October 2018 and held overnight. Barahona has since joined the Blue and White National Unity 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, 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

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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 Arrested the same day were Unamos members

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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

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dictatorship. They are being investigated under controversial

Law 1055 Law is a set of rules that are created and are law enforcement, enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a Socia ...

, 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.

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