The Associated Press presents Nicaragua’s removal of lawyers from the professional registry as another unexplained authoritarian crackdown. This essay reconstructs the deeper reality: a post-2018 Sandinista counter-subversion campaign aimed at the foreign-funded NGO, media, ecclesiastical, expatriate, financial, and legal networks the government believes helped organize the attempted coup. Lawyers and notaries matter because they give those networks legal continuity through contracts, properties, associations, donations, and powers of attorney. Nicaragua has the right to dismantle imperial infrastructure, but revolutionary sovereignty must still distinguish proven subversion from ordinary legal practice through transparent evidence and popular accountability.