Allan Zambrana Salmerón

Allan Adolfo Zambrana Salmerón (born circa 1954[1]) is a Nicaraguan lawyer, politician and trade unionist.

Biography

He was active in labour organizing in the 1970s, and was jailed at several times by the Somoza regime.[1][2][3] He was a leader of the United People's Movement (Movimiento Pueblo Unido).[4] He served as the general secretary of the Central de Acción y Unificación Sindical (CAUS) trade union centre.[5][6][7] After the victory of the Nicaraguan Revolution, he was a member of the State Council (representing CAUS). In October 1981 the State Council revoked his immunity, as he was sentenced to 29 months imprisonment for violating the Public Order Law.[8] He was recognized as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.[9]

Zambrana Salmerón was the Communist Party of Nicaragua candidate for the presidency in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election.[1] He obtained 16,034 votes (1.5%).[10] He was a member of the National Assembly 1984-1990.[11] In the 1990 Nicaraguan general election, he became an alternate member of the National Assembly for deputy Elí Altamirano.[12]

As of the early 1990s, Zambrana Salmerón was one of seven members of the politburo of the Communist Party of Nicaragua.[13] He was later expelled from the Communist Party.[14]

He served on the board of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH).[15]

References
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  2. Instituto de Estudios Políticos para América Latina y Africa (1978). Nicaragua, el pueblo vence a la dinastía. Instituto de Estudios Políticos para América Latina y Africa. p. 108.
  3. Wolfgang Dietrich (1988). Nicaragua: Entstehung, Charakter und Hoffnung eines neuen Weges. Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt. p. 229. ISBN 978-3-920431-71-0.
  4. Publik-Forum. 1979. p. 18.
  5. Mario A. Trujillo Bolio (1 January 1988). Organización y luchas del movimiento obrero latinoamericano, 1978-1987. Siglo XXI. p. 101. ISBN 968-23-1482-8.
  6. Gregory S. Crider (1988). The Sandinista state and politics of democracy and revolution: labor confederations as a case study. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 129.
  7. Envio. El sindicalismo nicaragüense frente a la agresión y la defensa
  8. Envio. The Inmunity Of Five Council Members Revoked
  9. Amnesty International. Sección Espanõla (1983). Centroamérica y México, 1981-1983. Editorial Fundamentos. p. 94.
  10. Dieter Nohlen (2 July 2013). Handbuch der Wahldaten Lateinamerikas und der Karibik: Band 1: Politische Organisation und Repräsentation in Amerika. Springer-Verlag. p. 599. ISBN 978-3-322-99762-3.
  11. Juliet Hooker (3 February 2009). Race and the Politics of Solidarity. Oxford University Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-19-971494-0.
  12. Nicaragua. Asamblea Nacional (1998). Historia del poder legislativo en Nicaragua, 1823-1998. Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua. p. 562.
  13. Richard F. Staar (1 September 1991). 1991 YEARBOOK ON COMMUNIST AFFAIRS. Hoover Institution Press. p. 104.
  14. El Nuevo Diario. “Asalto al Palacio de Invierno” sigue en su agenda
  15. Diario Nica. LA CPDH: TESTIGO DEL SUFRIMIENTO Y HEROISMO DE NUESTRO PUEBLO
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