Carlos Domingo Cuadra Cuadra is 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 countr ...

n politician and publicist. His parents were Carlos Cuadra Cardenal (from a family tracing their lineage to King

James I of Aragon James I the Conqueror ( es, Jaime el Conquistador, ca, Jaume el Conqueridor; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 12 ...

) and Olga Cuadra Sandino. He had three sons with his wife Maria Eugenia Rodriguez named Carlos Roberto, Diego Armando and Luis Miguel Cuadra Rodriguez. In the 1980s, Cuadra was a member of the Executive Secretariat of the

Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement Popular Action Movement - Marxist–Leninist () is a Hoxhaist communist party in Nicaragua that surged out of a split from the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the early 1970s. Since 1985 it is officially named the Marxist–Lenini ...

(MAP-ML) and served as the director of the newspaper '' El Pueblo''. In early 1980 was sentenced to two years of prison labour for statements expressed in ''El Pueblo'', deemed counter-revolutionary by the new government. Cuadra Cuadra and other personalities sentenced in the same penal case appealed the ruling, and the sentence was revised to three months prison labour. He became editor-in-chief of ''Prensa Proletaria'' in 1982. Cuadra represented the MAP-ML in the National Assembly 1984-1990. As a member of parliament, he opposed the 1987

Constitution of Nicaragua The Constitution of Nicaragua was reformed due to a negotiation of the executive and legislative branches in 1995. The reform of the 1987 Sandinista Constitution gave extensive new powers and independence to the National Assembly of Nicaragua, Nati ...

draft, labeling it 'bourgeois'. Cuadra was the vice-presidential candidate of MAP-ML in the

1990 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 25 February 1990 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p489 The result was a victory for the Na ...

. The ticket got 8,115 votes nationwide. Cuadra later left politics, and became director in advertising.''El Nuevo Diario''.
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{{reflist Marxist–Leninist Popular Action Movement politicians Members of the National Assembly (Nicaragua)