Register of the Enrique Bermúdez Varela papers, 1980-1990

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Title: Enrique Bermúdez Varela papers
Date (inclusive): 1977-1990
Collection Number: 2011C43
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Multiple languages
Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Reports, memoranda, clippings, and other printed matter relating to political conditions and civil war in Nicaragua.
Creator: Bermúdez Varela, Enrique, 1932-1991
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2011.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Enrique Bermúdez Varela papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Enrique Bermúdez Varela was the founder, and for ten years the top official military commander, of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (FDN-Northern Front), also known as the contras. In that capacity, he and more overtly political leaders, (including Alfonso Robelo, Adolfo Calero, and Arturo Cruz,) met with United States president Ronald Reagan and other top officials. The contras' opposed the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), or Sandinista, government.
Bermúdez graduated from the US Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and from the Inter-American Defense College in Washington. He served as chief of the Nicaraguan Delegation at the Inter-American Defense Board in Washington, DC in 1976 and as military attaché of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington during the Nicaragua civil war. The civil war formally ended in 1987 with the Esquipulas II Peace Agreement, brokered by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias. In 1991 Bermúdez was lured back to Managua, where he was shot in a hotel parking lot with a small-caliber East German assassination pistol, one of several that had been delivered to Sandinista defense minister Humberto Ortega some years earlier.

Scope and Content of Collection

Reports, memoranda, clippings, and other printed matter relating to political conditions and civil war in Nicaragua.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Nicaragua -- History -- 1979-1990
Guerrillas -- Nicaragua
Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense

box 1, folder 1

Correspondence 1982-1988

 

Printed matter 1977-1990

box 1, folder 2

Brochures 1983-1988

box 1, folder 3-5

Clippings 1980-1990

box 1, folder 6

Directiva Economica-Strategica 1990

box 1, folder 7

Foro Democracia Para Nicaragua "Foundacion Romulo Gallegos" - Venezuela 1989

box 5

Newspapers 1980-1990

 

Periodicals 1987-1989

box 1, folder 8

Nicaragua Hoy 1987-1989

box 1, folder 9-14

Photocopied periodicals 1977-1990

box 2

Photocopied periodicals 1977-1990

box 3

Photocopied periodicals 1977-1990

box 4, folder 1-2

Photocopied periodicals 1977-1990

 

Office files 1980-1990

box 4, folder 3-4

Memoranda 1980-1990

box 4, folder 5

Reports 1980-1990

box 4, folder 6

ADREN 1980-1990

box 4, folder 7

Comandante Franklin 1989

 

Speeches and Writings 1989-1990

box 4, folder 8

Transcripts 1989-1990

 

Legal Documents 1988-1991

box 4, folder 9

Briefs 1988-1991

box 4, folder 10

Petition 1988

box 4, folder 11

Maps 1988