# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/humberto-ortega
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:16:55.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/humberto-ortega"
name: "Humberto Ortega"
slug: "humberto-ortega"
description: "Humberto Ortega Saavedra was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, military leader, writer and businessman. One of the nine members of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), he co-founded the Tercerista tendency faction within the FSLN and was the \"major theorist\" of the urban insurrection strategy that toppled the Somoza family dictatorship. A four-star general, Ortega was minister of defense from 1980 to 1995, between the victory of the Sandinista revolution in 1979 under the National Reconstruction Government, through the first presidency of his brother Daniel Ortega, and into the presidency of Violeta Chamorro who defeated Daniel Ortega in 1990. He was also chief of the army, overseeing its transformation from the partisan Sandinista Popular Army (EPS) to the professionalized Nicaraguan Armed Forces under civilian control. Later in life he spoke out against repression by his brother's government. Hours after a May 2024 interview in which he sharply criticized his brother, Humberto Ortega was placed under house arrest. The following month, he was transferred to a military hospital where he died in September 2024."
tagline: "Nicaraguan officer (1947–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Humberto_Ortega_2005.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1947-01-10"
deathDate: "2024-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.48
  momentum:             7.162629757785468
  historical:           8.995505333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.generalhumbertoortega.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "هومبيرتو أورتيغا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Ortega"
    title: "Humberto Ortega"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BC%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE"
    title: "Ортега, Умберто"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump