Alfonso Robelo Callejas (born 11 October 1939), a Nicaraguan businessman, was a member of Los Doce and founder of the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (MDN). He was one of the "moderates" on the five-members Junta of National Reconstruction that the Sandinistas claimed would rule Nicaragua following the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. However, Robelo found that the real power lay with the FSLN National Directorate. The Junta of National Reconstruction ruled Nicaragua between 1979 and 1984. ... Sandinista! is also the name of a popular music album by The Clash. ... Anastasio and Luis Somoza Debayle in 1959 Anastasio Somoza Debayle (December 5, 1925–September 17, 1980) was officially the forty-fourth and forty-fifth President of Nicaragua from May 1, 1967 to May 1, 1972 and from December 1, 1972 to July 17, 1979. ...

After resigning from the Junta, Robelo brought his MDN into Edén Pastora's rebel Democratic Revolutionary Alliance. Later, he split with the erratic Pastora, and joined UNO with Arturo Cruz and Adolfo Calero of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force. Edén Pastora Gómez (born January 22, 1937?) was the leader of the ADREN; the largest contra army in southern Nicaragua in the 1980s. ... A.R.D.E or Alianza Revolucionaria Democrática were the Southern Front guerrillas dedicated to bringing democracy, and independence to Nicaragua after the hijacking of the original Sandinista revolution by communist elements in 1979. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... The Nicaraguan Democratic Force (Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense, or FDN) was one of the earliest Contra groups formed in 1980 in Honduras. ...

Former member of the RN Directorate. Politician, businessman. Born in Leon on October 11, 1939. Earned a degree in chemical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.) in 1961. Rector of the University of Central America 1970-1972 and President of the Nicaraguan Chamber of Commerce until 1975. He then headed the Nicaraguan Development Institute, long active in the development of independant agricultural and small business cooperatives. Following the assassination of La Prensa editor Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Robelo cofounded the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement, a social-democratic political party of businessmen, industrialists, and professionals opposed to the Somoza regime. A leader and main spokesman for FAO working openly against the Somoza regime, he was arrested and publicly labeled a "subversive" by Somoza. After the revolution Robelo was one of the five members of the original 1979 post-Somoza junta. Resigned in April of 1980 because of the Marxist tendencies in the FSLN-dominated government and the growing Cuban influence in the country. Became President of the Democratic Coordinating Board. Harassed by the FSLN after his resignation from the junta and detained by the Sandinistas when he sought to travel abroad in 1982, he was finally forced into exile later that year, and his property was confiscated. In 1982, he joined with Eden Pastora and others in founding the ARDE, seeking to achieve the original democratic goals of the revolution. Robelo was elected to the Nicaraguan Resistance Directorate in May 1987. Resigned from the RN Directorate in January 1988.

(January 1988) Nicaraguan Biographies: A Resource Book, Special Report No. 174 (in English), United States Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, 42-43.