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Sandinistas surge back in Nicaragua.(Insider Report)(Brief Article)
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won 87 of Nicaragua's 152 mayoral posts in November elections, including Managua, the nation's capital. With help from Communist Cuba, the Soviet Union, and the Carter administration, the Sandinistas overthrew the government of President Anastasio Somoza in 1979 and established a Communist dictatorship that ruled Nicaragua throughout the 1980s. Top Sandinista Daniel Ortega lost the presidential election to Violeta Chamorro and the United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO) in 1990, but Sandinista judges and Sandinistas in the federal bureaucracy, legislature, police, ...
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