Ana Margarita Vijil Gurdián is a Nicaraguan lawyer, political leader and human rights activist.

[1] She left to join Herty Lewites' 2006 presidential campaign under the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) banner, but Lewites died four months before the 2006 election and the FSLN's Daniel Ortega was elected.

[1] From 2008 to 2010,[2] Vijil was a Fulbright fellow, earning a master's in political science in Arizona in the United States.

[1] From 2012 to 2017, Vijil was president of the MRS and after the government banned it, became a member of the successor party, Democratic Renovation Unity (Unamos).

[3] In October 2018, following the protests that had broken out in April and the bloody government repression that ensued, Vijil was part of a sit-in on Camino de Oriente that led to her arrest when police shut down the demonstration; she was released the next day.