Manuel Fernando Zurita

Manuel Fernando Zurita was a Nicaraguan lawyer and politician.

Manuel Fernando Zurita served as President of Nicaragua on May 6 and 7, 1950 after the death of Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes . Like his predecessor and successor, he belonged to the PLN and was replaced by Anastasio Somoza García .

In 1958 he became Nicaraguan ambassador to Spain.

After the Sandinistas came to power in 1979, he and his wife Estrellita were arrested and imprisoned as a political prisoner. He then lived in El Salvador and later in Guatemala in exile and wrote his autobiography Experiencias .

Fonts

• Manuel F. Zurita, Arturo Cerna, Elí Tablada Solís: Acusación a tres representantes del Congreso Nacional complicados en los sucesos del 3 y 4 de April del corriente año. Discursos de los acusadores, doctor Manuel F. Zurita, don Arturo Cerna y doctor Elí Tablada Solís; confiesa su culpabiblidad el general Emiliano Chamorro, senador Vitalicio y jefe del Partido Conservador de Nicaragua. De las declaraciones de otros de los acusados, se desprende que el plan terroista tenía como objectivo asesinar al señor Presidente Somoza . Partido Liberal Nacionalista, Managua 1954, OCLC 7607092 ( limited preview in Google book search).

• Manuel F. Zurita: Experiencias. El asalto al Palacio Nacional de Nicaragua, yo fui prisionero del comandante "Cero", últimas horas de Somoza y las horas de Urcuyo, y otros relatos . 1st edition, [sn], [Sl] 1983, OCLC 11786120 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfonso Dávila Barboza: Confuso itinerario del crucifijo de Rubén Darío ( Memento of 4 November 2007 at the Internet Archive ). Nuevo amanecer cultural, March 3, 2007 (Spanish)

predecessor	Office	successor
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes	President of Nicaragua May 1950	Anastasio Somoza García