Suyén Barahona

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. 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.

Biography Barahona has a degree in international relations. She is an advocate for feminist and environmental causes, 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.

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.

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. 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. They are being investigated under controversial Law 1055, passed in December 2020, which allows the government to detain anyone it designates as a "traitor to the homeland".