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]
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]
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]