CPJ Calls on ICE to Release Exiled Nicaraguan Journalist Luis Galeano
Press-freedom groups and Miami Republicans urged his release, warning deportation could endanger the exiled journalist after Nicaragua stripped his citizenship.
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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...
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.
ICE arrested denationalized Nicaraguan journalist Luis Galeano, director of Café con Voz and critic of the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in the United States.
Republican congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar asked to avoid the deportation of the journalist because she considers it a great risk to return to Nica...
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