[2] After her mother died in a car accident in 1999, her father remarried María Josefina Vigil Gurdián, sister of Ana Margarita Vijil,[2] former president of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS).

[4] She is a member of Union for Democratic Renewal (Unamos) and the Political Council of the National Unity Blue and White opposition group.

[3] Her house was raided while she was home with her four-year-old daughter and the police subsequently released a statement indicating she, like many of the other arrested opposition figures, was being investigated for alleged “acts that undermine independence, sovereignty, and self-determination", that is, violating the controversial Law 1055, called the Guillotine Law by critics.

[3] It was one of four laws passed in December 2020 granting broad power to the government to make a unilateral designation of citizens as “traitors to the homeland”.

[8] On 19 July 2021, the IACHR ruled that Dávila was in a situation of “extreme gravity, urgency and imminent danger of irreparable damage to [her] rights” and issued precautionary measures to protect her and her immediate family members, including ordering her immediate release by the Nicaraguan government.