Word: democraticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The junta was also trying to mop up diehard remnants of Somoza's national guard. Almost every night the sounds of gunfire shattered the stillness of Managua as Sandinista security men battled renegade guardsmen. Egged on by a Masaya mob that demanded the death of its prisoner, Sandinista troops...
That was precisely what troubled the military rulers of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Their leaders feared that a domino effect might engulf them in a wave of leftist insurgency inspired by the success of Nicaragua's revolt. In all three countries, leftist terrorism has been on the rise...
Since 1966 at least 40,000 people have been murdered in clashes between the government and its critics. Since the killing of Manuel Colom Argueta, one of the opposition's most charismatic figures, many democratic opponents of the regime of President Romeo Lucas García have thrown in...
It is extremely useful that the democratic groups-the petite bourgeoisie, the liberals, the center-left organizations and some religious leaders-stayed out. It shows that an important part of the intelligentsia and even the clergy do not approve of this system of government. People just realized that it is...
Bakhtiar reappeared just three days before Iranians began electing the 73 members of a constituent assembly who are to approve a new constitution that Khomeini and others have drawn up as the blueprint for an Islamic republic. He said he welcomed the boycott of the election by such groups as...