Hugo Torres Jiménez
Nicaraguan former Sandinista guerrilla and general (1948–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hugo Torres Jiménez (25 April 1948 – 11 February 2022) was a Nicaraguan Sandinista guerrilla and military leader who was a brigadier general in the Nicaraguan Armed Forces. During the Sandinista National Liberation Front effort to overthrow the Somoza family regime, Torres was the only guerrilla who participated in both the 1974 Christmas party raid that freed future President Daniel Ortega among other prisoners, and the 1978 raid on the National Palace, freeing another 60 political prisoners. In the late 1990s he became a critic of Ortega, leaving the FSLN to join the Sandinista Renovation Movement and later its successor the Democratic Renewal Union, serving as vice-president of both parties. In June 2021 he was part of a wave of arrests of opposition figures by the Ortega administration. He died the following February.
Hugo Torres | |
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Birth name | Jorge Hugo Torres Jiménez |
Nickname(s) | Comandante Uno |
Born | (1948-04-25)25 April 1948 Somoto, Nicaragua |
Died | 11 February 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 73) |
Allegiance | Nicaragua |
Service/ | Nicaraguan Armed Forces |
Rank | Brigadier General (ret.) |
Alma mater | National Autonomous University of Nicaragua |
Children | 3 |