Isidro Téllez Toruño

Isidro Ignacio Téllez Toruño (born circa 1948[1]) is a Nicaraguan politician and trade unionist.[2][3] He served as general secretary of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement (MAP-ML) and is a veteran leader of Frente Obrero ('Workers' Front').[2][4]

He hails from a family of farm workers in León.[5] In early 1980, he was sentenced to two years of prison labour for statements expressed in the MAP-ML organ El Pueblo, deemed counter-revolutionary by the new government.[6] Téllez Toruño and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour.[7]

Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election, obtaining 11,352 votes.[8] Téllez Toruño represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990.[9][10]

Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1990 Nicaraguan general election.[11] The ticket got 8,115 votes nationwide.[4]

In a statement on International Workers Day 2017, he denounced that Daniel Ortega had 'hijacked the trade union movement' and called the policies of the Sandinista government 'anti-labour'.[2]

References
  1. El Nuevo Diario. “Plaga” de ladrones de vehículos
  2. La Prensa. Ortega “secuestra” al sindicalismo
  3. El Nuevo Diario. Ahora es otro el opio de los pueblos
  4. Charles D. Ameringer (1992). Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 463. ISBN 978-0-313-27418-3.
  5. UPI. Thumbnail sketches of opposition candidates
  6. CIDH. REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
  7. Manuel Jirón (1983). Pasado, presente y futuro de la libertad de expresión en Nicaragua. Ediciones Radio Amor. p. 23.
  8. Manuel Alcántara Sáez (1999). Sistemas políticos de América Latina. Tecnos. p. 279. ISBN 978-84-309-3437-9.
  9. Worker's Advocate. Managua in the summer of '85
  10. Nicaragua. Nicaragua-Gesellschaft. 1987. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-925290-06-0.
  11. Carter Center. Observing Nicaragua's Elections, 1989-1990
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