| Birth Name: | Henry Ildefenso Ruiz Hernandez |
| Birth Place: | Jinotepe, Carazo |
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Politician| years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | title = Commandante
Minister of Planning
Minister of Foreign Cooperation| term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | movement = Sandinista National Liberation Front
Sandinista Renovation Movement| opponents = | boards = | criminal_charges = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | family = | callsign = | awards = | website = | module = | module2 = | module3 = | module4 = | module5 = | module6 = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | footnotes = }}Henry Ildefenso Ruiz Hernández (born 1940) is Nicaraguan politician. He is a former guerilla and one of the nine commandants of the Sandinista (FSLN) Directorate, announced in Havana in March 1979, that overthrew the Somoza regime in July 1979.[1] With Tomás Borge and Bayardo Arce, he represented the Prolonged Popular War (GPP) faction.[2] Following the revolution, he was Minister of Planning from 1979 to 1985 when he became Minister of Foreign Cooperation.[3]
He later left the FSLN, joining Sergio Ramírez and Dora María Téllez to lead the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS).[4]
Henry Ruiz was born in Jinotepe in 1940 to a modest family.As a child, he won the national elementary school award for best student, awarded by Luis Somoza Debayle.
Book: Nicaraguan Biographies: A Resource Book. 1988. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs.