it's also the latest arrest of arrival of president daniel ortega miguel mora. a journalist was detained during the night. just want to several government critics and opposition politicians arrested in recent weeks. john homan is in mexico city, unexplained what was behind morris arrest. the nicaraguan security apparatus. and the police say that it's basically because of treason that he was encouraging a military operation against nicaragua. that he was acting in favor of foreign interests against nicaragua, and that's what they've said about the different people that they've arrested recently. as you mentioned, 5 presidential hopefuls, even if they weren't candidates, they were people who were expected possibly to run in the upcoming elections in november. so this is a real crackdown, but it hasn't just been happening just in the last couple of months. this is something that's actually been going on in nicaragua, since 2018 when they were mass protests against president. i'll take as government since then. the government's been cracking down on dissent wherever

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miguel mora journalist and the presidential hopeful was arrested on the nicaragua, controversial new laws. the crackdown on ortega's opposition isn't neither. as john holman report from mexico city. it seems that president, daniel, will take his government as really go around sort of mopping them up. now, officially, what the police have said is that he was asking for, for an intervention in nicaragua, including for military intervention that he was involved in terrorist attacks. they ready for the book at him and the new laws in nicaragua, that have recently been made, which enables the government to accuse basically people of treason, their political rivals, treason. so he's just the latest one in more than a dozen political figures that we've seen arrested recently in the country. now this is something as well that hasn't just been happening over the last couple of months. this has been happening over the last 3 years or so since 2018 in which there were protests against president ortega and his regime. and those protest ended with a lot of people being arrested, a lot of people being thrown in jail dissidence students, journalists, and political figures amongst them. but this is an escalation of that repres