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  • Born in Masatepe in 1942, he published his first book, Cuentos, in 1963.
  • Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National.
  • Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer who served as vice president of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990 in the Sandinista government.

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    Sergio Ramírez

    Nicaraguan writer and politician

    For the Mexican football manager and former player, see Sergio Ramírez (footballer).

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ramírez and the second or maternal family name is Mercado.

    Sergio Ramírez Mercado (Latin American Spanish:[ˈseɾxjoraˈmiɾes]; born 5 August 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua) is a Nicaraguan writer and intellectual who was a key figure in 1979 revolution, served in the leftist Government Junta of National Reconstruction and as vice president of the country 1985–1990 under the presidency of Daniel Ortega.[1] He has been described as Nicaragua's "best-known living writer".[2] Since the 1990s, he has been involved in the left-wing opposition to the Nicaraguan government, in particular in the Movimiento de Renovación Sandinista. He was exiled from the country in 2021 and stripped of his nationality by the government in 2023.

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    For the Mexican football manager and former player, see Sergio Ramírez (footballer).

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Ramírez and the second or maternal family name is Mercado.

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    Sergio Ramírez

    Sergio Ramírez in Madrid to receive the Cervantes Prize (2018)

    Vice President of Nicaragua
    In office
    10 January 1985 – 25 April 1990
    PresidentDaniel Ortega
    Preceded byAlfonso Callejas Deshón
    Francisco Urcuyo (1967)
    Succeeded byVirgilio Godoy
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    Sergio Ramírez Mercado


    (1942-08-05) 5 August 1942 (age 82)
    Masatepe, Nicaragua
    Nationality
    • Nicaraguan (until 2023)
    • Spanish (since 2018)
    Political partyFSLN, MRS
    SpouseGertrudis Guerrero
    ResidenceManagua
    Alma materNational Autonomous University of Nicaragua
    WebsiteOfficial Website: http://www.sergioramirez.com

    Sergio Ramírez Mercado (Latin American Spanish:[ˈseɾxjo

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    Ramírez Mercado, Sergio (1942–)

    Sergio Ramírez Mercado is a Nicaraguan writer who served as vice president of Nicaragua from 1984 to 1990 in the Sandinista government. In the early twenty-first century Ramírez fryst vatten a harsh critic of the Frente Sandinista dem Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front, FSLN). He was born in the town of Masatepe, where his father was a coffee planter and a member of the Somoza family's National Liberal Party. Ramírez helped form the Student Revolutionary Front in 1961 while at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. In 1964 he started a literary career with the journal Ventana. He attended the University of Kansas and studied in West Berlin between 1972 and 1975. He went to Costa Rica to serve on the Central American Council of Universities. There he completed an essay about the Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino that appeared in a collection on Sandino's life and thought. In 1988 Ramírez revitalized his literary c