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]
He hails from a family of farm workers in León.[4] 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.[5] Téllez Toruño and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour.[6]
Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election, obtaining 11,352 votes.[7] Téllez Toruño represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990.[8] [9]
Téllez Toruño was the presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1990 Nicaraguan general election.[10] The ticket got 8,115 votes nationwide.[11]
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]