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The Sandinista Youth (Spanish: Juventud Sandinista or Juventud Sandinista 19 de Julio) is the youth organization of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party in Nicaragua. The Sandinista Youth arose informally during the Nicaraguan Revolution and it was formally founded by Gonzalo Carrión [1] after the FSLN victory on July 19, 1979.
In 1984, free and fair elections were held, [34] [35] but were boycotted by opposition parties. The FSLN won the majority of the votes, [36] and those who opposed the Sandinistas won approximately a third of the seats. The civil war between the Contras and the government continued until 1989.
Sandinista ideology or Sandinismo is a series of political and economic philosophies instituted by the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front throughout the late twentieth century. [1]
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After a week of demonstration, the peaceful protesters were attacked by paramilitary groups associated with the Sandinista Youth, [15] while police had moved back only moments before. [16] Later, to calm down the protests, concessions to the pensioners were made by president Daniel Ortega to supply a reduced pension.
Secretly within catacombs he educates the youth on the truth about revolution, and the future of an independent Nicaragua which it can achieve. Some of the most important Sandinistas had lived with him in a commune in Managua's poor El Riguero barrio before joining the Sandinista National Liberation Front , including Joaquín Cuadra , Álvaro ...
These include his brother Carlos Carrión Cruz, who was head of the Sandinista Youth and then Political Secretary for the FSLN, and sister Gloria Carrión Cruz, General Secretary of AMNLAE, the Sandinista women's group; as well as uncle Arturo Cruz and cousins Arturo Cruz Jr. (both of whom served as Nicaraguan political officials and diplomats ...
The protesters were violently set upon by the state sponsored Sandinista Youth. [130] Despite attempts by Ortega's government to hide the incident through censorship of all private-owned news outlets, photos and videos of the violence made their way to social media where they sparked outrage and urged more Nicaraguans to join in on the protests.