When the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was voted out of power in 1990 after a decade of battling U.S.-backed contra insurgents, many of its supporters from the United States and Europe ...

When I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving rifles, flags, and signs ...

Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and participated in the country’s 1979 Revolution. She has a powerful presence and a gentle ...

The President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, and his wife Rosario Murillo led an artistic and political event in Managua to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, attended by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract El artículo aborda la manera en que la Revolución Popular Sandinista y el proceso de institucionalización del neoliberalismo, a través de las ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — 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 ...

A mural in Las Manos, Nicaragua, seen in 2016, depicts Sandinista martyrs. Rising to power within the Nicaraguan government in the 1980s, the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was ...

Nicaragua announced last week it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a U.N. report that slammed the government’s human rights violations and warned the country was ...

MANAGUA, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Former Marxist rebel Daniel Ortega returns to power in Nicaragua this week, a blow to the United States even though he dropped much of the 1980s radicalism that helped turn ...

When Daniel Ortega was re-elected president in 2006, I cheered for Nicaragua. When he sidestepped the constitution to get himself re-elected in 2011, I worried for Nicaragua. And now that Ortega is ...