Three months into a wave of protests which has engulfed Nicaragua ... Revolution which has been marked every year on 19 July since the 1979 overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza.

The Somoza family had ruled the country with US backing between 1937 and the Sandinista revolution ... Somoza family dynasty. Somoza and his sons Luis and Anastasio Jr rule Nicaragua until 1979.

Nicaragua is in crisis ... to power off the back of the left-wing Sandinista revolution, which was launched to bring down the Somoza dynasty, but later also defeated the rise of US-sponsored ...

Mónica Baltodano was a guerrilla commander in Nicaragua ... revolution, including Ortega’s former comrades. MB: How can it be that they jailed the heroes of the struggle against the Somoza ...

Opposition politicians attacked the move as an attempt by Ortega to install a family dynasty ... the FSLN during the Nicaraguan Revolution that toppled dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, which ...

Nicaragua is a volcanic nation ... 6.1 million as high-handedly and corruptly as Somoza ever did. In recent days, Ortega has found that his dynasty, too, rests on an unstable foundation.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega's constitutional reforms, now approved, extend presidential control by formalizing the ...

The former Sandinista leader also said that there was nothing left from the revolution which ended Somoza's regime. “Nicaragua is a very young country, 70% of the inhabitants are less than 30 ...