Moisés Martínez Mayorga, investigative journalist at the digital portal of Confidencial newspaper in Nicaragua: “The political trials undertaken by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo are simply a strategy of political revenge against the leaders involved in the citizen insurrection of April 2018, mainly those who dared to step forward and challenge the caudillo during general elections. The former leftist guerrilla used the crudest possible strategy: he imprisoned all these candidates, unleashed a wave of repression that produced more than 60 new political prisoners, and, to complete his revenge, he tried them privately in a maximum-security prison and gave them sentences ranging from eight to 13 years in prison, based on ridiculous evidence, including publications on social networks and comments to the media. In this way, the regime is betting on establishing a climate of fear and political submission that prevents the emergence of new leadership and eliminates any possibility of a new social outburst. To complete this strategy and continue with…”