Arturo Cruz, Jr.

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Arturo José Cruz Sequeira, son of prominent Nicaraguan Arturo Cruz Porras, became involved in the exile politics of the Contra rebels opposing the Sandinista (FSLN) government.

As an idealistic youth, Cruz supported the Sandinistas, only to become disillusioned after they took power. He turned to the charismatic Edén Pastora, the former Sandinista commander starting up the rebel Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, only to become disenchanted with him as well.

Cruz then became involved in 1985 with UNO (United Nicaraguan Opposition), the rebel umbrella group which his father had joined. Trips to Lt. Colonel Oliver North's office at the National Security Council brought him into contact with North's secretary, Fawn Hall, whom he fell in love with. After his father's resignation from UNO in March 1987, he attached himself to Aristides Sánchez. Eventually, he left Contra politics, recounting his experience in Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary.

Since then, he has completed a doctorate and joined the faculty of the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE).

Dr. Cruz was recently name ambassador of Nicaragua in Washington by newly elected President Daniel Ortega.[[Category::Living people|Cruz Jr., Arturo]]