Former Nicaraguan president Enrique Bolanos dies at 93


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Jun 2021

FILE PHOTO: Former Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos buys a T-shirt after attending a mass in remembrance of the victims killed in recent protests over reforms that implemented changes in the pension plans of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS), in Managua, Nicaragua May 25, 2018. The words on the T-Shirt read: "Let your mother surrender". REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Former Nicaraguan president Enrique Bolanos, a conservative who challenged corruption on the right even as he remained a steadfast adversary of his leftwing successor Daniel Ortega, has died at the age of 93, his family said on Tuesday.

The Ortega government announced three days of mourning for Bolanos, who served as president from 2002-2007.

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