Joaquín Cuadra

Joaquín Cuadra Lacayo (born April 11, 1951 in Managua) a scion of Nicaragua's elite, joined the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in late 1972.

Cuadra studied at Colegio Centro America, a Jesuit high school in Nicaragua, where he became interested in politics, liberation theology, and Marxism.

While attending the University of Central America, he and other students were impressed by one of their professors, Father Uriel Molina, who lived among the poor in Managua's El Riguero barrio.

[2] As leader of the Sandinista Internal Front, he helped support Eden Pastora's capture of the National Palace in August 1978[3] and coordinated urban guerrilla actions during the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution.

[4] During the Protests in Nicaragua in 2018, the retired general questioned the government's decision to send the armed forces to counter the demonstrations.