Edmundo Jarquín (born in

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, September 1946) is a

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n politician. He was the vice presidential running-mate of

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, who was the presidential candidate for the

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(MRS) in the 2006 elections until his death on July 2, 2006. Jarquín then became the presidential candidate for the MRS.Jarquin's Nomination
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to be his running mate. Jarquin finished in fourth place during the 2006 elections, receiving 6.29% of the vote.

Early life

Edmundo Jarquín was educated in Nicaragua ( Universidad Centroamericana - UCA), as well as in Chile (Universidad de Chile), where he obtained a law degree.

Career

During the previous

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regime, he served as ambassador of Nicaragua to Spain and to

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. After the Sandinista defeat in the elections of 1990, he became a member of the

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for the FSLN. In 1992, he joined the

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(IDB) in

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until his retirement in 2005.

Personal life

In 1986, he married Claudia Lucía Chamorro, also an FSLN ambassador and the daughter of eventual

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. They moved to the United States in 1991 to seek treatment for Chamorro's son who had leukemia.

References

1946 births Living people Sandinista Renovation Movement politicians Sandinista National Liberation Front politicians Members of the National Assembly (Nicaragua) Ambassadors of Nicaragua to Spain Ambassadors of Nicaragua to Mexico Central American University (Managua) alumni {{Nicaragua-politician-stub