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Media outlets in the regime’s propaganda apparatus released images on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, of Nicaraguan journalist Fabiola Tercero Castro. She had been forcibly disappeared since July 12, 2024, when police officers raided her home in Managua.
Since then, various national and international organizations working on political prisoners and press freedom had described Fabiola Tercero’s case as “particularly concerning,” given the long period in which no information about her was available.
The journalist appeared alongside her mother, Rosalinda Castro García, who, according to regime propaganda outlets, demanded that her daughter’s image no longer be used as that of a “disappeared” person.
The communicator’s case, however, fits into a systematic pattern of repression, the criminalization of journalism, and attacks on freedom of expression in Nicaragua.
There was never any official record indicating that Fabiola Tercero had been transferred to the women’s prison known as “La Esperanza,” as has happened with other female political prisoners since 2018.
According to records from various human rights organizations, during the raid the Ortega police seized her computer and other work materials.
Tercero is a well-known Nicaraguan journalist and feminist. In 2017, she created El Rincón de Fabi, a platform promoting reading in order to attract new readers in Nicaragua’s digital era through book-giving dynamics such as trades and raffles.
Campaigns in Support of Fabiola Tercero
In July 2025, when one year had passed since her detention, the United States Government demanded that the regime release the journalist.
As of October 2025, the Mechanism for the Recognition of Political Prisoners of Nicaragua, which operates from exile, had recorded 77 political prisoners, 36 of them under conditions of “forced disappearance.”
Currently, according to the Foundation for Freedom of Expression and Democracy (FLED), at least 293 journalists and media workers are living in exile — victims of forced displacement, which has become the only means of survival in the face of state persecution.
Five Political Prisoners Released
Fabiola Tercero’s appearance comes just a few days after the release of five political prisoners — on November 8, 2025 — who were placed under house arrest and threatened with reprisals if they spoke to the media, civil society organizations, or human rights groups.
The released prisoners are:
- Leo Catalino Cárcamo Herrera
- Julio Antonio Quintana Carvajal
- Fabio Alberto Cáceres Larios
- Ronald Leiva Silva
- Jorge Danilo Portocarrero Argüello
