Isidro Ignacio Téllez Toruño (born c. 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]
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- ^ El Nuevo Diario. “Plaga” de ladrones de vehículos
- ^ a b c La Prensa. Ortega “secuestra” al sindicalismo
- ^ El Nuevo Diario. Ahora es otro el opio de los pueblos
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ UPI. Thumbnail sketches of opposition candidates
- ^ CIDH. REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
- ^ Manuel Jirón (1983). Pasado, presente y futuro de la libertad de expresión en Nicaragua. Ediciones Radio Amor. p. 23.
- ^ Manuel Alcántara Sáez (1999). Sistemas políticos de América Latina. Tecnos. p. 279. ISBN 978-84-309-3437-9.
- ^ Worker's Advocate. Managua in the summer of '85
- ^ Nicaragua. Nicaragua-Gesellschaft. 1987. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-925290-06-0.
- ^ Carter Center. Observing Nicaragua's Elections, 1989-1990