Óscar Moncada Reyes (died November 9, 2014) was a

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

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. Moncada served as a member of the

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for three consecutive terms from 1997 to 2011, including a tenure as the President of the National Assembly of Nicaragua from 1999 until 2001. He was the Vice President of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) at the time of his death in 2014. Óscar Moncada was the son, from a second marriage, of former

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José María Moncada José María Moncada Tapia (8 December 1870 – 23 February 1945) was the President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1929 to 1 January 1933. Political career Born to a wealthy family of Spanish and German descent, Moncada rose to fame as one of th ...

, who held office from 1929 to 1933.

Early life

Moncada held numerous public offices and appointments during the administrations of former Presidents

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(1990–1997) and

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(1997–2002). He served as the director of human resources within the Ministry of Labor and sub-director of the Instituto de Seguro Social. He was also the secretary general of the Empresa Aguadora of

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. Moncada died of a heart attack at his home in

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, Masaya Department, on November 9, 2014, at the age of 78.

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