Rigoberto Cruz

Rigoberto Cruz was a Nicaraguan and one of the founders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1961. Cruz, who is better know by his pseudonym Pablo Ubeda, [cite book |last=Zimmermann |first= Matilde |title=Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution |url= |year=2000 | publisher= Duke University Press |isbn=0822325950|pages=83 |quote= ] is one of the early martyrs of the Sandinista revolution. He was killed in San Carlos after the battle of Pancasán on August 1967 in one of FSLN's historical defeats. [cite news | title=1967| url =http://www.sandinovive.org/carlos/BioCarlosFonseca.htm | work =SandinoVive.org | accessdate = 2008-01-19 | language = Spanish]

Rigoberto Cruz in popular culture

Rigoberto Cruz is most known by his alias "Pablo Ubeda". He was also nicknamed "El cadejo de Las Segovias" as he was considered a master of disguise. During the insurrection, the North-Eastern Front was named "Frente Nor-Oriental Pablo Ubeda". After the Sandinista triumph in 1979, the special troops of the Ministry of Interior, were also named after "Pablo Ubeda"

* of "Pablo Ubeda", a song by "Carlos Mejía Godoy".

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External links

* [http://www.fsln.org.ni/acercade/fundadores_fsln.html Fundadores del FSLN]
* [http://www.confidencial.com.ni/2000-199/actualidad.html Confidencial, newspaper]
* [http://www.manfut.org/museos/fsln.htm Manfut.org]