Miguel Mora

Miguel de los Ángeles Mora Barberena (born August 20, 1965) is a Nicaraguan journalist and political candidate. With his wife Verónica Chávez, he founded cable news channel 100% Noticias. In June 2021, Mora was arrested in a wave of detentions of opposition figures and other civic leaders, including seven aspiring opposition candidates for president in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.

Biography Miguel de los Ángeles Mora Barberena was born on August 20, 1965, in the Quinta Nina neighborhood in Managua. The government also confiscated the television channel's facilities.

Mora's imprisonment motivated him to begin participating in politics. Mora became a PRD pre-candidate within the National Coalition for the Nicaraguan presidency in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.

On June 20, 2021, Mora was arrested in a wave of detentions of opposition figures and other civic leaders that began with the arrests of four other pre-candidates for president; he is the fifth to be detained. He was sentenced to thirteen years in prison and in 2023 he was stripped of his Nicaraguan nationality and expelled from the country to the United States along with 300 opponents of the Ortega and Murillo regime.