Carlos Tünnermann was former Minister of Education of Nicaragua and uncomfortable voice for Ortega. He was a member of the so-called Group of Twelve, intellectuals, writers and academics who supported the Sandinista revolution.
The academic was a writer, lawyer and pedagogue, but he also stood out as a diplomat. He saw politics as a form of public service and a peaceful tool to recover democracy, crushed by decades of despotism. He died this Wednesday at the age of 90 in a hospital in Managua.