Luis Adan Fley Gonzales (born March 1951, Matagalpa) [1] is a 2021 candidate for President of Nicaragua. [2] He was also known as "Comandate Jhonson." [3]
He is a former Resistance Commander, having been both a Sandinista guerilla and a Contra rebel. He has also been an agricultural technician, army officer and Member of the RN Cease-Fire Commission. [1] Completed the third year of the agricultural high school in Matagalpa. [1] After commanding the FSLN's Bernardino-Diaz Ochoa Column in 1978-79 against Somoza, he entered the EPS. [1] "Jhonson" joined the Resistance on June 13, 1981. [1] Commanded the Raul Arrioliga and Armando Blancher Task Forces, and the 15th of September Command. [1] His family was split by the 1979 revolution and United States-backed counterrevolution, where him and three of his brothers fought on opposing sides. [3]
Fley was a candidate for the 2021 Nicaraguan presidential election, representing Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). He is part of the National Coalition, a collection of opposition groups that have pledged to make a democratic selection of one candidate to back against incumbent Daniel Ortega. [4] However, On 12 July, he confirmed he had gone into exile in response to “threats from the dictatorship to arrest me”. [5] He withdrew his candidacy, saying that with so many candidates jailed the election was already compromised and his continued candidacy would only play into Ortega's hand. [5]