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may 1, 1961 - Sandinista Government (1961)

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Sandinistas. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. The Sandinistas lost national elections in 1990.

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may 1, 1961
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~ 64 years ago