Was Bernie Sanders inappropriately, even disloyally, supportive of the Nicaraguan Sandinista government 34 years ago? Sanders, like many liberals and leftists, opposed the United States’ support for ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MANAGUA (Reuters) -Retired Nicaraguan general Hugo Torres, a former revolutionary comrade of President Daniel Ortega later ...

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered his Venezuelan colleague Nicolás Maduro the help of his “Sandinista fighters” in case of civil war in the South American country, where the opposition ...

To commemorate International Clash Day, NPR revisits a 1981 archival interview with Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon. From The Archives: The Clash Talks 'Sandinista!' Feb. 7, 2018 marks the fifth ...

Nicaraguan president and ex-guerilla leader Daniel Ortega and his Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FLSN) were reelected for a third consecutive five-year term, amid deepening inequality and ...

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and his wife, who is co-president, have been arresting longtime loyalists, in an apparent quest to ensure no one outside the family rises to power. By Frances ...

As leftist leaders make gains across Latin America, an old U.S. adversary from the 1980s contra war has set off alarm bells in Washington: Daniel Ortega’s Sandinistas. The Sandinista Front won 87 of ...

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 ...

Upon his inauguration as Nicaraguan president in January 2007, Daniel Ortega asserted that his government would represent “the second stage of the Sandinista Revolution.” His election was full of ...