Maximino Rodríguez Martínez (born 1961) is a Nicaraguan politician and rancher. He is a deputy of the

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of Nicaragua between 2016 and 2022. He is a leader of the

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organization. He was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in the 2016 general elections for the

Constitutionalist Liberal Party The Constitutionalist Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Constitucionalista, PLC) is a political party in Nicaragua. At the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, Nicaraguan general election of 5 November 2006, the party won 25 of 92 seats in the N ...

Biography

During his adolescence, in the 1980s, he was a

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. During the war he was shot in the head. In that period he participated under the pseudonym "Commander Wilmer". Between 1996 and 2011 he was a deputy for three terms for the Constitutionalist Liberal Party. He was a militant from 1997 to 2016; in that year he decided to resign from the Constitutionalist Liberal Party.

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