Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The country had suffered both war and, earlier, natural disaster in the devastating 1972 Nicaragua earthquake. In 1979, approximately 600,000 Nicaraguans were homeless and 150,000 more were either refugees or in exile, [41] out of a total population of just 2.8 million. [42] In response, a state of emergency was declared.
Her 1991 documentary film, Pictures from a Revolution, depicts her return to sites she photographed and conversations with subjects of the photographs as they reflect on the images ten years after the war. [15] In 2004, Meiselas returned to Nicaragua to install nineteen mural-size images of her photographs at the locations where they were taken.
Following the operation, thousands of youths and women joined the Sandinista movement. [1] A popular insurrection grew along with the FSLN and contributed to the fall of the Somoza regime on July 19, 1979. [1] Dora María Téllez (in the center, wearing a black beret) during the FSLN conquest of León (June 1979)
William D. Stewart (1941 – June 20, 1979) was an American journalist with ABC News who was murdered by Nicaraguan government National Guard ("Guardia") forces while reporting on the Nicaraguan Revolution as Sandinista rebel forces were closing in on the capital city of Managua in 1979. [2]
In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in Nicaragua. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Following their seizure of power, the Sandinistas ruled the country first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction .
In the history of Nicaragua, the Contras (Spanish: La contrarrevolución, the counter-revolution) were the right-wing militias who waged anti-communist guerilla warfare (1979–1990) against the Marxist governments of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and the Junta of National Reconstruction, which came to power after the Nicaraguan ...
Ortega's crackdown on civil society, as well as the Catholic Church, has intensified since anti-government protests erupted in 2018. ... In latest purge, Nicaragua outlaws 1,500 civil society ...
Nicaraguan Civil War (1926–1927) Nicaraguan Revolution (1962–1990) This page was last edited on 13 May 2024, at 01:36 (UTC). Text is available under the ...