Luis Carrión Cruz
Luis Carrión Cruz | |
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Luis Carrión Cruz in 2018 | |
| First Vice-Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 1980–1988 | |
| Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce | |
| In office 1988–1990 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Citizenship | Nicaragua |
| Political party | Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Tendency Sandinista National Liberation Front Sandinista Renovation Movement |
| Known for | Commander of the Nicaraguan Revolution |
Luis Fernando Carrión Cruz (born 1952) is a Nicaraguan politician. He is a former guerilla and one of the nine commandantes of the Sandinista (FSLN) National Directorate that overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979. Born to a wealthy, politically-connected family, he began college in the United States but returned to Nicaragua, first joining a radical Catholic group then the FSLN. He led the Carlos Roberto Huembes Eastern Front in Chontales during the final offensive of the revolution. He was a government minister and member of the FSLN National Directorate until 1995 when he split with party and became a cofounder of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS).