Nicaraguan Journalist Luis Galeano Detained by ICE in Florida : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
Press-freedom groups and Miami Republicans urged his release, warning deportation could endanger the exiled journalist after Nicaragua stripped his citizenship.
- On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano in Orlando, Florida, while he was working as an Uber driver.
- Galeano, director of the Miami-based program Café con Voz, fled Nicaragua in 2018 amid a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, who stripped him of citizenship in 2023.
- Currently held at the Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida, Galeano awaits an immigration hearing scheduled for October 2 with an active asylum application pending in the United States.
- Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and the Committee to Protect Journalists called for his release, warning that deportation could return him to the dictatorship that persecuted him.
- Nicaragua's broader press freedom crisis has driven an estimated 268 journalists into exile, with Reporters Without Borders describing the country's media landscape as 'in ruins.
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Nicaraguan Journalist Luis Galeano Detained by ICE in Florida : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
U.S. immigration authorities arrested a Nicaraguan journalist on Monday who is critical of the government of Daniel Ortega and has been living in exile in the United States for several years, according to the opposition figure’s family. Luis Galeano went into exile in the United States in 2018 and was awaiting a decision on his […] The post Nicaraguan Journalist Luis Galeano Detained by ICE in Florida appeared first on The Tico Times | Costa Ric…
CPJ calls on ICE to release exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano
Mexico City, September 15, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on U.S. immigration authorities to release Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano, director of the radio and internet program Café con Voz, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on the morning of September 14 in Orlando, Florida. Galeano was detained while driving for...
Republican congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar asked to avoid the deportation of the journalist because she considers it a great risk to return to Nica...
Miami Republicans Challenge ICE Detention of Nicaraguan Journalist Luis Galeano as Exile Community Sounds Alarm
The detention of exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano by U.S. immigration authorities is provoking an unusual backlash from South Florida Republicans, press-freedom organizations and members of Miami's Nicaraguan community, who warn that deportation could place his life in danger.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) set a date for the hearing of Luis Galeano, an exiled Nicaraguan journalist who was arrested on September 14.The hearing before the Migration Court is scheduled for October 2, confirmed to La Nación his wife Deykell Santamaria.At the time of his arrest in the State of Florida, Galeano was making transfers in Uber. The 48-year-old journalist, director of the Café con voz space, founded in 201…
His detention on U.S. soil generated immediate expressions of solidarity from civil organizations, journalists and members of the exiled opposition.
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