José Coronel Urtecho
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José Coronel Urtecho (1906-1994) was a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual, who has been described as "the most influential Nicaraguan thinker of the twentieth century."[1] After an attraction to fascism in the 1930s, he eventually became a supporter of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
He was born on February 28, 1906 in Granada, Nicaragua. He is credited with founding the literary Vanguard Movement in 1927. In 1934, he founded the newspaper, La Reacción, where he advanced pro-fascist ideas. He lived in both the United States and Spain, and served in diplomatic posts for the Somoza government, but would be best known for residing near San Carlos, in southern Nicaragua.
He married María Kautz Gross. One son, Ricardo, would be a member of Los Doce; another, Carlos, would be a key advisor of Edén Pastora. Nephews include Ernesto Cardenal, himself an influential poet and author, and Edgar Chamorro. He died from cancer on March 19, 1994.
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- ^ Arturo Cruz, Jr. Memoirs of a Counter-Revolutionary: 75
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