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National Autonomous University of Nicaragua The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (, UNAN) is a public university in Nicaragua. Its main campus is located in Managua. The original campus, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua-León, UNAN-Leon, is located in León, Nicaragua ...

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, occupation = , years_active = , era = , employer = , organization = , known_for = , notable_works = , style = , title = , term = , predecessor = , successor = , party = , movement = , opponents = , boards = , criminal_charges = , criminal_penalty = , criminal_status = , spouse = , partner = , children = , parents = , mother = , father = , relatives = , family = , awards = , website = , module = , signature = , signature_size = , signature_alt = , footnotes = Moisés Hassan Morales (born 4 May 1942) is a Nicaraguan politician. He was one of five members of the

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that ruled the country from 1979 to 1984, following the fall of the

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regime.

Early life

Born in

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on May 4, 1942, to Nicaraguan mother and Palestinian father from Gaza (then part of

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), Hassan studied engineering at the

(UNAN). In 1968 he earned a PhD in physics from

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Career and militancy

Hassan was a long-time dissident and early FSLN member. He attended his first protest against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and was jailed several times for his continued dissidence. He joined the FSLN in its infancy in the 1960s and was a key figure in the organization by the time the uprising came to a head in the late '70s, having built a network of subversives in Managua’s slums. He was the dean of the UNAN's College of Science and Letters until he joined the anti-Somozas effort in 1978. He was head of the activist National Association of Professors and became its delegate to the United People's Movement, a coalition of civic groups supporting the Sandinistas, which he founded in 1978. He led the September 1978 uprising against the regime. In 1979, he joined the five-member

(RN), alongside fellow Sandinistas, intellectual

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and commander

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, as well as

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, widow of ''La Prensa'' publisher

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of '' La Prensa'', the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a ...

; and prominent businessman

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. Hassan left the RN in March 1981. Hassan served as Minister of Construction until he became Vice-Minister of the Interior in May 1983. From 1984 to 1988, he was

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. His technical skills made him valuable in that capacity, dealing with persistent flooding in the capital. Hassan split with the FSLN in 1988. He was removed from his post as Mayor for failure to follow orders from the nine-member FSLN National Directorate, at times at odds with ideological hardline members

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and Bayardo Arce. Hassan resigned the party shortly thereafter. On December 16, 2009, he published ''La maldición de Güegüense.'' His papers are held at the

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, acquired in 2002.

References

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