Roberto Rivas Reyes

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rivas and the second or maternal family name is Reyes.

Roberto José Rivas Reyes (6 July 1954 – 5 March 2022) was a Nicaraguan politician who was President of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE).^[1] Rivas became a CSE magistrate in 1995,^[2] and five years later became its president.^[3]

Rivas in 2013

Biography

As of January 2018, vice-president Lumberto Campbell served as the CSE’s acting head,^[4] following Magnitsky Act sanctions of Rivas by the United States for corruption in December 2017.^[5] Rivas resigned the post in May 2018.^[2]

Rivas’s brother, Harold Rivas Reyes, was Nicaragua’s Ambassador to Costa Rica from February 2007 until January 2018.^[6] Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega recalled Harold Rivas from his post shortly after Roberto was sanctioned.^[5]

Personal life and death

Rivas was married to Ileana Delgado Lacayo, with whom he had four children.^[2] He died of sepsis on 5 March 2022, at the age of 67, following five months of hospitalization for COVID-19 in Managua.^[2]