Isidro Téllez Toruño

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').

[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.

[7] Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election, obtaining 11,352 votes.

[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'.