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Place of Birth: Jinotega, Jinotega Department, Nicaragua
About Jaime Wheelock
- Jaime Wheelock Román (born 1946) is a Nicaraguan 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 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 Harvard University.
- Wheelock has written several books: Imperialismo y Dictadura, RaÃces IndÃgenas 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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