Humberto Belli

Humberto Belli Pereira (born September 7, 1945) is a Nicaraguan politician and writer. The former Minister of Education in Nicaragua during the presidency of conservative Violeta Chamorro, Belli is also the author of five books.

Biography Humberto Belli Pereira was born September 7, 1945, in Managua) to Humberto Belli Zapata and Gloria Pereira Salazar. His sister is the author and former Sandinista revolutionary Gioconda Belli.

Humberto Belli was educated at the Central American University, the University of Madrid, and University of Pennsylvania, where he studied sociology. He joined the Sandinista student group, the Revolutionary Student Front (FER) in 1965, but broke with the FSLN and Marxism in 1975 while continuing to oppose the Somoza rule. and Buscando La Tierra Prometida, Historia de Nicaragua 1492-2019 (Searching for the Promised Land, 2019).

Belli became Minister of Education in Nicaragua during the presidency of conservative Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and also worked in the administration of her successor, Arnoldo Alemán of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party. On June 16, Bellí and 12 other former directors of Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUNIDES) had their bank accounts frozen in an investigation for alleged violations by the Foundation of the controversial Law 1040, the “Law on the Regulation of Foreign Agents”.

Works

Buscando La Tierra Prometida, Historia de Nicaragua 1492-2019 (2019).