In The Sandinistas and Nicaragua Since 1979, scholars sympathetic to the Nicaraguan revolution of the 1980s grapple with the transformation of the Sandinistas from youthful idealists into powerful ...

Nicaragua — The Nicaraguan government organized rallies and festivities Monday to mark the anniversary of the July 19, 1979, revolution that overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza. But with most ...

The Somoza family had ruled Nicaragua since 1936 with the support of the U.S. government, but by 1979, the Somozas were involved in a civil war with the Sandinista National Liberation Front.

Learn more. MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua marked the 39th anniversary of the 1979 revolution against dictator Anastasio Somoza on Thursday amid protest and bloodshed. Some say the country has ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's "dictatorship" is doomed, exiled novelist Sergio Ramirez has told AFP, predicting the ...

Anastasio Somoza was the last member of the dynasty which ruled Nicaragua as a dictatorship from 1936 until it was overthrown in 1979 Some key dates in Nicaragua's history: 1522 - Spanish explorer ...

A leader in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution, Ortega has long butted heads with the US. He helped to overthrow a US-backed dictator during the revolution, and his first presidency, from 1979 to 1990 ...

Fighters of the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrow the regime in the central American republic of Nicaragua in July 1979. President Anastasio Somoza Debayle - the third ...

Nicaragua also said it will allow the presence ... Ortega has been a staunch ally of Russia since his days in the leadership of the 1979 revolution that deposed dictator Anastasio Somoza.

Anastasio Somoza was the last member of the dynasty which ruled Nicaragua as a dictatorship from 1936 until it was overthrown in 1979 Some key dates in Nicaragua's history: 1522 - Spanish explorer ...