Berta Valle is an exiled Nicaraguan journalist, human rights defender, and the wife of opposition figure Félix Maradiaga. Since 2018, Berta, her daughter and mother-in-law have been living in exile due to the political persecution faced by her husband Félix Maradiaga. Maradiaga was forcibly disappeared by the regime in June 2021 after announcing his intention to run against Daniel Ortega in November’s presidential elections. On February 10, 2023, Maradiaga was released from prison after 611 says and expelled to the United States, where he reunited with Berta and their daughter.”