Omar Cabezas

Omar Cabezas

Omar Cabezas (* 1950 in León ) is a Nicaraguan author , revolutionary and politician .

Life

Omar Cabezas joined the resistance against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua in the late 1960s . He took part in the armed struggle against the regime until the victory over the National Guard in July 1979. In the 1980s he worked in the Ministry of the Interior for the Sandinista government. His best-known literary work is probably the novel: "The earth turns tenderly, Compañera". In this novel, Cabezas tells how he came to join the resistance against Somoza. He tells of the first student marches he helped organize in León and his life in the guerrilla movement in the mountains of Nicaragua. Cabezas is currently the head of the state human rights authority (Procurador para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos) and is notorious for his authoritarian leadership style, financial irregularities in his authority and for his rampant lifestyle. The authority led by Cabezas is part of the authoritarian power apparatus in Nicaragua led by Daniel Ortega .

Publications

• La montaña es algo mas que una inmensa estepa verde (The mountains are much more than a huge green steppe). Autobiographical novel by Omar Cabezas, Managua 1982.
  • The earth turns tenderly, compañera. Autobiographical report from Nicaragua. Hammer, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87294-221-2

literature

• Andreas Gooses: The earth turns male, compañeros. The ideal of masculinity of the guerrillas in: Gender and Power: Analyzes and Reports (= Yearbook Latin America 24), Münster: Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot 2000, pp. 96-106 - critical analysis of the cultivation of myths at Cabezas

Web links

• Literature by and about Omar Cabezas in the catalog of the German National Library