Moisés Hassan

Moisés Hassan Morales (born 4 May 1942) is a Nicaraguan politician. He was one of five members of the Junta of National Reconstruction that ruled the country from 1979 to 1984, following the fall of the Somoza regime.

Early life Born in Managua on May 4, 1942, to a Nicaraguan mother and Palestinian father from Gaza (then part of Mandatory Palestine), In 1968, he earned a PhD in physics from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Career and militancy Hassan was a long-time dissident and early FSLN member. He attended his first protest against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and was jailed several times for his continued dissidence. He joined the FSLN in its infancy in the 1960s and was a key figure in the organization by the time the uprising came to a head in the late '70s, having built a network of subversives in Managua’s slums. He was removed from his post as Mayor for failure to follow orders from the nine-member FSLN National Directorate, at times at odds with ideological hardline members Tomás Borge and Bayardo Arce.

His papers are held at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University, acquired in 2002.