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Rigoberto Cabezas

1860–1896 · 19th century

Rigoberto Cabezas was a Nicaraguan journalist, soldier and politician. In 1894 President José Santos Zelaya sent him to the Caribbean coast, where he occupied Bluefields and oversaw the incorporation of the Mosquito Reserve into Nicaragua as the department of Zelaya. The port of Puerto Cabezas in north-eastern Nicaragua is named after him.

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