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  Alfonso Robelo Callejas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Alfonso Robelo Callejas joined the Directorate of the United Nicaraguan Opposition in 1985 and was elected to the Directorate of the Nicaraguan Resistance by that organization’s assembly last May. Both Contra organizations oppose the ruling Sandanista (FSLN) regime and seek the democratization of Nicaragua.
Robelo, a graduate in chemical engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y., was elected president of the Chamber of Industries of Nicaragua in 1972, distinguished himself in the economic revitalization of the country after that year’s devastating earthquake.
Following his resignation, Robelo became a notable figure in the internal opposition, and suffered assaults by the regime in its efforts to repress civilian opposition.
www.ashbrook.org /events/lecture/1987/callejas.html   (543 words)

  
 Nicaragua: A Blueprint for Democracy
The Committee included Pedro Joaquin Chamorrot and Alfonso Robelo Callejas president of the Superior Council of Private Initiative (COSIP the umbrella organization for Nicaragua's businessmen The Roman Catholic Church also was actively promoting democracy The Role of the Private Business Sector COSIP also played a prominent role in the struggle for democracy in Nicaragua.
After Chamorro's murder, Alfonso Robelo and other bush'ess and labor leaders organ i zed a massive strike to force Somoza's resignation by what they termed ''a joint strategy in our final encounter against the tottering dictatorship.
In April 1980, Robelo and Chamorro resigned from the Junta, denouncing the FSLNIs Votalitarian scheme.
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 Daniel Ortega - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He immediately visited Cuba, a major source of aid for the Sandinistas, and returned to his role as guerrilla commander.
When Somoza was overthrown by the FSLN in July 1979, Ortega became a member of the five-person Junta of National Reconstruction, which also included Sandinista militant Moisés Hassan, novelist Sergio Ramírez Mercado, businessman Alfonso Robelo Callejas, and journalist Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (associated with the newspaper La Prensa).
The FSLN came to dominate the junta, Robelo and Chamorro resigned, and Ortega became the de facto ruler of the country.
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 Nicaragua 1984: Swirl In The Eye Of The Storm
Robelo played a key role in the general strikes organized against Somoza in 1978, and after his overthrow, became one of the original five members of the Sandinista junta.
Robelo left Nicaragua on 24 March, 1982, when he realized that total censorship of the press, FSLN ownership of most newspapers, radio and television stations, and restriction of any political disagreement offered no chance for emergence of democratic pluralism.
Alfonso Robelo states that Chamorro was expelled from Costa Rica and lost contact with the ARDE leadership.
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 Human Rights KtC
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Military assistance to Adolfo Colero Portocarrero, Alfonso Robelo,
Alfonso Callejas, Fernando Chamorro Rappacioli, Eden Pastora Gomez, Adrianna Guillen,
www.knowthecandidates.org /ktc/whyhumanrights2.htm   (4370 words)

  
 League for the Fifth International | Permanent Revolution 07   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Alfonso Robelo Callejas had emerged as the major ?gure in the bourgeois opposition.
Robelo, an industrialist and President of the Nicaraguan Development Institute (INDE) with close links to BANIC, warned in an interview with an Argentinian newspaper (obviously aimed for US consumption) that ‘if Somoza continues in power, giving the people no option but armed insurrection, the country will be in danger of falling under communist rule’.7
Robelo was to become the main bourgeois ?gure in the FSLN’s ‘Government of National Reconstruction’ of 1979.
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 Nicaragua 1981 - Introduction
Wednesday morning, July 18, three members of the Junta, Sergio Ramírez, Alfonso Robelo, and Violeta Chamorro, left San José, Costa Rica, for León, Nicaragua, where they joined fourth Junta member, Daniel Ortega, and declared León to be the new provisional capital.
On September 25, 1979, three members of the Junta, Daniel Ortega, Sergio Ramírez and Alfonso Robelo deposited the instrument of ratification of the American Convection on Human Rights, on behalf of the Government of national Reconstruction of Nicaragua.
Alfonso Robelo, accompanied by the Foreign Minister of the Republic, Miguel D’Escot, in addition to depositing the instrument of ratification of the American Convention on Human Rights (Pact of San José), again extended the invitation to the Commission.
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 SSHL: Collections: Latin American Studies: Elections
Stahler-Sholk 1987: Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and Alfonso Robelo “were replaced by Rafael Córdova Rivas, a cattle rancher and leader of the Conservative Democratic Party (PCD); and Arturo Cruz, international banker and member of Los Doce” (page 79).
Christian 1986: “Just three days before [Ortega’s speech on August 23 rd], four of the opposition parties (the Democratic Conservatives, Alfonso Robelo’s MDN, the Social Christians, and the Social Democrats) had issued a joint demand for elections, citing the junta’s written commitment to the OAS in July 1979 to call elections.
Goodsell 1983: Robelo’s “departure in February 1982, marked the end of hopes that he would serve as a bridge between the Sandinistas and the business community.
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 Sandinista National Liberation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
To begin the task of establishing a new government, they created a Council (or junta) of National Reconstruction, made up of five members – Sandinista militants Daniel Ortega and Moises Hassan, novelist Sergio Ramírez Mercado (a member of "the Twelve"), businessman Alfonso Robelo Callejas, and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro).
Violeta Chamorro and Alfonso Robelo resigned from the governing junta in 1980, and the governing role of the Sandinistas became obvious as Ortega and his allies consolidated power.
Likely the fl is representative of revolution as that is a well known symbol and the red represents marxism, communism, socialism the white letters are likely only white for legibility.
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 Carla's Song (1997)
Daniel Ortega became a member of the five-person Junta.
rez Mercado, businessman Alfonso Robelo Callejas, and journalist Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
When Robelo and Chamorro resigned, Ortega became the de facto ruler of the country.
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 EXTENDED PROFILES - NICARAGUA
Although still fragmented, opposition to the Somoza regime continued to grow during 1978.
In March, Alfonso Robelo Callejas, an anti-Somoza businessman, established the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (Movimiento Democrático Nicaragüense--MDN).
In May 1978, the traditional Conservative Party joined Udel, Los Doce, and the MDN in creating the Broad Opposition Front (Frente Amplio de Oposición--FAO) to try to pressure President Somoza for a negotiated solution to the crisis.
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 [ information-center.be | Sandinista Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Violeta Chamorro and Alfonso Robelo resigned from the governing junta in 1980, and rumours began that members of the Ortega junta would consolidate power amongst themselves.
These allegations spread, and rumors intensified that it was Ortega's goal to turn Nicaragua into a state modeled after Cuban Communism.
The letters are probably white for legibility's sake.
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 3 ON KISSINGER PANEL MEET ANTI-SANDINISTA CHIEF - Free Preview - The New York Times
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Members of President Reagan's commission on Central America, apparently in a change of plans, met today with a leading member of a rebel group fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista Government.
The rebel leader, Alfonso Robelo Callejas, met with three members of the commission and with Representative Jim Wright, Democrat...
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