
Fabio Gadea Mantilla (born November 9, 1931, in
Ocotal,
Nueva Segovia) is a
Nicaraguan
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and ...
radio journalist, writer, and politician. He is owner and co-founder of the news radio station
Radio Corporación. He also represents Nicaragua as deputy to the
Central American Parliament and was President of that body in 2004–2005, as well as having been a member of its Commission of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology from 2007 onward.
In 2010, he was nominated to run as a candidate for President of Nicaragua in the
November 2011 general election.
In November 2011 he lost the election to
Daniel Ortega
José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; ; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician and dictator who has been the president of Nicaragua, co-president of Nicaragua since 18 February 2025, alongside his wife Rosario Murillo. He was the 54th an ...
of the
FSLN.
External links
Quién es Quién en el Parlamento Centroamericano y en la Asamblea Nacional, Diputados Electos Período 2007–2011 ''Hagamos Democracia'', Nicaragua. (In Spanish) (Biographical article; scroll to p 25–26.)
by Edgard E. Martínez, ''Aqui Nicaragua''. (In Spanish) (Biographical article.)
Column archive at Radio Corporación (In Spanish)
"Fabio Gadea Mantilla acepta la casilla 13 del PLI", ''
La Prensa'', December 27, 2010. (In Spanish)
"La carta de don Fabio", ''La Prensa'', August 15, 2010. (In Spanish)
"¿Que encierra la candidatura de Fabio Gadea Mantilla?"by Sebastián Chavarría Domínguez, ''El Socialista Centroamerica'', September 4, 2010. (In Spanish)
1931 births
Living people
People from Nueva Segovia Department
Independent Liberal Party (Nicaragua) politicians
Nicaraguan journalists
Nicaraguan short story writers
Male short story writers
Radio journalists
Male journalists
20th-century short story writers
21st-century short story writers
20th-century Nicaraguan male writers
21st-century male writers
20th-century Nicaraguan writers
21st-century Nicaraguan writers
Presidents of Central American Parliament
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