Berta Valle

She is the wife of former 2021 presidential pre-candidate Félix Maradiaga, who was detained by the government of Daniel Ortega on June 8, 2021.

[2] Valle spent eight years working as a television presenter on the morning show Primera Hora.

[citation needed] Since 2019, she has led Voces en Libertad, a nonprofit promoting cooperation among members of Nicaragua’s independent media who fled the country following the 2018 sociopolitical crisis.

[4] On June 8, 2021, her husband Félix Maradiaga became part of a wave of arrests of opposition pre-candidates for president in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.

[7] Victoria Cárdenas, wife of Juan Sebastián Chamorro, another detained candidate, was similarly accused.