Exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE in Florida

Galeano, who has had asylum application pending for about seven years, was pulled over by agents while driving for Lyft Veteran journalist Luis Galeano, one of at least 94 Nicaraguans whom the Ortega Murillo regime has stripped of citizenship in recent years for opposing the government, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Galeano, who has continued critically reporting on the Sandinista government online through his platform, Café con voz, since shortly after arriving in the US in 2018, has had an asylum application pending for about seven years, according to his wife, Daykel Santamaría. He also has a work permit and a social security number, she said. Continue reading...

Timothy Pratt · Wed, Sep 16, 2026, 2:59 PM
US news | The Guardian

Exiled Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano detained by ICE in Florida

Galeano, who has had asylum application pending for about seven years, was pulled over by agents while driving for Lyft

Veteran journalist Luis Galeano, one of at least 94 Nicaraguans whom the Ortega Murillo regime has stripped of citizenship in recent years for opposing the government, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Galeano, who has continued critically reporting on the Sandinista government online through his platform, Café con voz, since shortly after arriving in the US in 2018, has had an asylum application pending for about seven years, according to his wife, Daykel Santamaría. He also has a work permit and a social security number, she said.

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