Mónica Baltodano

Mónica Baltodano was a commander of the guerrilla revolutionary group known as the Sandinista National Liberation Front during the Nicaraguan Revolution. She worked in the movement for several decades, and after experiencing the corruption and authoritarianism within the movement, she left in 2005 to form the Sandinista Renovation Movement (Movimiento para la Renovación Sandinísta), known as El Rescate.

Biography Baltodano was born in Leon, Nicaragua on August 14, 1954.

Political involvement Baltodano became politically involved in high school when she worked on the campaign to free Doris Tijerino, a Sandinista revolutionary, from prison. She joined the Revolutionary Students Front, an armed group of young revolutionaries in 1972. After several decades in the FSLN, Baltodano took issue with what she described as an authoritarian, vertical leadership style rife with corruption.

Legacy Baltodano was one of several FSLN women featured in the 2018 documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!.

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.