Jaime Wheelock Román (born May 30, 1947) is a

Nicaragua Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, 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 aft ...

n politician. Member of The Sandinista Liberation Front from 1967, he was named as a member of the National Directorate in 1973. Wheelock graduated as lawyer and sociologist by

University of Chile The University of Chile () is a public university, public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

and FLACSO, Chile. He was the leader of the "Proletarian Tendency" in the 1970s, and one of the nine commanders of the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution that overthrew the Somoza regime. After 1979 he became minister for agriculture and agrarian reform in the Sandinista government of the 1980s. After 1990 he obtained a master's degree in public administration at

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. Wheelock has written several books: ''Imperialismo y Dictadura'', ''Raíces Indígenas de la Lucha anticolonialista en Nicaragua'', ''Diciembre Victorioso'', ''El Desarrollo Economico de Nicaragua'', and ''La Reforma Agraria Sandinista'', amongst other publications. Since 1996 he has been the President of the ''NGO Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Democracia IPADE''.

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Living people Nicaraguan rebels Sandinista National Liberation Front politicians Agriculture ministers of Nicaragua University of Chile alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni People of the Nicaraguan Revolution 1946 births {{nicaragua-politician-stub