Virgilio Abelardo Godoy Reyes (1 May 1934 in León – 17 November 2016 in Managua)[1] was a Nicaraguan politician who served as the vice president of his respective Central American nation from 25 April 1990 until he resigned in October 1995 to run for president in the 1996 presidential election.
[3] He represented his party within the opposition coalition against the government of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
Upon the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, he was appointed as minister of labor by the ruling junta.
[4] He was elected in the 1990 presidential ticket of National Opposition Union as running mate of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
He worked as professor in National Autonomous University of Nicaragua–León.