Nicaragua detains four more opposition figures

Riot police stand guard outside the house of Cristiana Chamorro, former director of the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation and pre-presidential candidate, in Managua. Police Sunday said they arrested four more opposition figures. MANAGUA: Nicaraguan police said on Sunday that they had detained four more opposition figures in a roundup ahead of November presidential elections in which four would-be challengers of long-serving leader Daniel Ortega have already been held.

Unamos, formerly known as the Sandinista Renewal Movement , is made up largely of dissidents who split from Ortega's Sandinista National Liberation Front because they disagreed with his leadership. Among the latest detainees, Tellez, 65, has in recent years been a vocal critic of Ortega, a former comrade-in-arms.They fought together as guerrillas against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in the 1970s, and she later served as his health minister in the 1980s, before leaving in 1995 to co-found the MRS.

Ortega governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, returned to power in 2007 and has won two successive reelections since then.Ortega is widely expected to seek a fourth term in November elections, though he has not said so.

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