Carlos Domingo Cuadra Cuadra Explained

Carlos Domingo Cuadra Cuadra is a Nicaraguan politician and publicist.His parents were Carlos Cuadra Cardenal (from a family tracing their lineage to King James I of Aragon) and Olga Cuadra Sandino. He had three sons with his wife Maria Eugenia Rodriguez called Carlos Roberto, Diego Armando and Luis Miguel Cuadra Rodriguez.^[1]

In the 1980s, Cuadra was a member of the Executive Secretariat of the Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement (MAP-ML) and served as the director of the newspaper El Pueblo.^{[2] [3]} In early 1980 was sentenced to two years of prison labour for statements expressed in El Pueblo, deemed counter-revolutionary by the new government.^[4] Cuadra Cuadra and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour.^[5] He became editor-in-chief of Prensa Proletaria in 1982.^[6]

Cuadra represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} As a member of parliament, he opposed the 1987 Constitution of Nicaragua draft, labeling it 'bourgeois'.^{[11] [12]}

Cuadra was the vice-presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the 1990 Nicaraguan general election.^[13] The ticket got 8,115 votes nationwide.^[14]

Cuadra later left politics, and became director in advertising.^{[15] [16] [17]}

Notes and References

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2. Book: Rosa María Torres. José Luis Coraggio. Transición y crisis en Nicaragua. 1987. Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones. 978-9977-904-43-6. 13.
3. Aguirre, Erick. La espuma sucia del río: sandinismo y transición política en Nicaragua. Managua: CIRA, 2001. p. 181
4. CIDH. REPORT ON THE SITUATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NICARAGUA
5. Book: Manuel Jirón. Pasado, presente y futuro de la libertad de expresión en Nicaragua. 1983. Ediciones Radio Amor. 23.
6. Book: Catálogo de periódicos y revistas de Nicaragua: 1931-1978. 1992. Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura. 28.
7. Book: Daily Report: Latin America. July 1988. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 21.
8. Book: Panorama centroamericano: Reporte político. 1989. Instituto Centroamericano de Estudios Políticos. 102.
9. Book: Third World. 1989. Tricontinental Editôra. 29.
10. Worker's Advocate. Managua in the summer of '85
11. Book: Nicaragua. 1987. Nicaragua-Gesellschaft. 978-3-925290-06-0. 23.
12. Book: Latin America Report. 1986. [Executive Office of the President], Federal Broadcast Information Service, Joint Publications Research Service. 101.
13. Carter Center. Observing Nicaragua's Elections, 1989-1990
14. Book: Charles D. Ameringer. Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. 1992. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-27418-3. 463.
15. El Observador Economico. Crece Mercado Publicitario
16. El Nuevo Diario. La poesía tiene oficinas
17. El Nuevo Diario. Ahora es otro el opio de los pueblos