Nicaraguan Autonomous Regions
Party abbreviations: PLC = Partido Liberal Constitucionalista
(Liberal Constitutionalist Party); UNO = Unión Nacional Opositora
(National Opposition Union, anti-Sadinista coalition);
Yatama = Yabti Tasba Masraka Nanih Asia Takanka (Misquito
Indians, regional political party)
North
Atlantic Autonomous Region (Atlantico Norte)
30 Oct 1987
Statute of Autonomy for the Regions of Nicaragua's
Atlantic Coast passed.
4 May 1990
Regional government takes office.
Coordinators of the Regional Government ("governors")
4 May 1990 - 1992
Leonel Panting Wilson
(b. 1950)
UNO
1992 - 4 May 1994
Alfonso Smith Warman
Yatama
4 May 1994 - May 1996 Marcos Hopintong
Scott
Yatama
May 1996 - 4 May 1998 Stedman Fagoth
Muller
(b. 1949)
PLC
4 May 1998 - 4 May 2002 Alba Rivera de Vallejos
(f)
PLC
4 May 2002 - 4 May 2006 Hurtado García Becker
Yatama
4 May 2006 -
Reynaldo Francis Watson
Yatama
South Atlantic
Autonomous Region (Atlantico Sur)
30 Oct 1987
Statute of Autonomy for the Regions of Nicaragua's
Atlantic Coast passed.
4 May 1990
Regional government takes office.
Coordinators of the Regional Government ("governors")
4 May 1990 - 4 May 1994 Alvin Guthrie Rivers
UNO
4 May 1994 - 4 May 1998 Rayfield Wayne Hodgson Bobb
PLC
4 May 1998 - Apr 2001 Randolph Noel
Hodgson Jullit
PLC
Apr 2001 - 4 May 2002 Rendell Hebbert
Lopez
PLC
4 May 2002 - 24 Aug 2002 Raúl Martínez Medina
PLC
24 Aug 2002 - Sep 2004 Guy Crosby Cox Wallace
PLC
Sep 2004 - 4 May 2006 Alejandro Mejía
Gaitán
PLC
4 May 2006 - 4 May 2008 Paulo Santos Avendaño
Zapata
PLC
4 May 2008 - Yadira
Esperanza Flores Reyes (f)
PLC
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