Sandinista
noun
San·di·nis·ta
ˌsan-də-ˈnē-stə 
ˌsän-
: a member of a military and political coalition holding power in Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990
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Carter immediately broke with the Somoza regime, which collapsed within weeks and gave rise to the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a revolutionary but eventually anti-American group.
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Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Back then, Nicaragua had just succumbed to the communist Sandinista revolution.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
In 1979, the Somoza regime in Nicaragua fell and the Sandinista government took power.
—Raul A. Reyes, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
The Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
This David versus Goliath dynamic that pitted the powerful United States against a small developing country enhanced the Sandinista project’s international allure.
—TIME, 2 May 2024
President Ortega, 78, came to power as a leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that ousted a right-wing dictator in 1979.
—James Wagner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
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Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Back then, Nicaragua had just succumbed to the communist Sandinista revolution.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
In 1979, the Somoza regime in Nicaragua fell and the Sandinista government took power.
—Raul A. Reyes, NBC News, 30 Dec. 2024
The Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter and a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
This David versus Goliath dynamic that pitted the powerful United States against a small developing country enhanced the Sandinista project’s international allure.
—TIME, 2 May 2024
President Ortega, 78, came to power as a leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front that ousted a right-wing dictator in 1979.
—James Wagner, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
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