Espinoza continues: “Almost 43 years ago, on July 19, 1979, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution was declared, ending the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua. Somoza fled the country on July 17 ...

So, 40 years ago, I went to Nicaragua. Like many people of our generation, we were excited by the Sandinista revolution, which had overthrown decades of U.S.-backed family dictatorship under the ...

Ortega, was one of the nine 'comandantes' who led the Sandinista Revolution which in 1979 toppled the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastsio Somoza. He ruled Nicaragua between 1985 and 1990 ...

Managua expelled Brazil's Ambassador for not attending the celebrations of the Sandinista revolution's 45th anniversary and Brazil responded accordingly. Ortega insisted the ”servile“ Lula was ...

Ortega, a 79-year-old former guerrilla who governed Nicaragua in the 1980s after the triumph of the Sandinista revolution, has been in power since 2007, and his critics accuse him of establishing a ...

A century later, in his 1999 memoir of Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, Adiós Muchachos ("Goodbye Boys"), Sergio Ramírez, who served as vice president in the socialist regime installed in 1979 ...

It’s 25 years since Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution catapulted Central America into the headlines. It drew fierce opposition from Washington; but adoration from tens of thousands of ...

Concerns are mounting over his health, given his age and isolation. A key figure in the 1979 Sandinista revolution that ousted dictator Anastasio Somoza, Ruiz served as Minister of Planning in ...

Bill Gentile covered Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution for United Press International (UPI) and ABC Radio News, and is the author of the highly acclaimed book of photographs, Nicaragua.

Sobalvarro, known as “Commander Rubén”, is a former head of the “Contras”, the defunct counterrevolution that the United States financed against the Sandinista Revolution in the 1980s.

It was all laughter and applause in the Sandinista ranks. However, that visit would mark the beginning of the end of their revolution. Soon after, Yeltsin would cease to be “Comrade Yeltsin ...