Word: masaya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armed Marxist guerrillas staged a pitched battle against Somoza's National Guard in the coffee and cattle town of Matagalpa. Finally the Sandinistas raised the stakes to civil war by launching coordinated attacks against guard posts in widely scattered cities and towns: in the capital itself, Managua; in Masaya, 20 miles southeast of the capital; in the pleasant coffee town of Diriamba, 28 miles south; in León, Nicaragua's second largest city; in Chinandega; and in Esteli, on the Pan American Highway in the north...
...civil war. Somoza has to go." The teen-age girl shouting anti-government slogans in the battered town of Masaya last week hardly looked like a revolutionary. But, as upon countless others, revolution had been thrust upon her. An overwhelming number of Nicaragua's 2.6 million people had come face to face with something most of them had long anticipated and feared-civil...
...each place where the Sandinistas struck, National Guard posts were the principal target. In Esteli, beleaguered guardsmen protected themselves by holding twelve of the town's leading citizens hostage. And in Monimbó, an Indian barrio of 12,000 people on the outskirts of Masaya, angry rebels who have been battling the National Guard almost daily since February finally overran the local guardia station and slaughtered its two officers and a dozen enlisted...
...reports from visitors to Esteli, Leon, Masaya and Chinandega while they were in rebel hands said the challenge to Somoza's rule is coming mostly from townspeople with guns made to kill rabbits rather than...
...Cross spokesman estimated 2 000 people may have died in Esteli alone, although firm figures have been impossible to obtain. Red Cross spokesmen estimate more than 1 000 died in earlier fighting in Leon, Chinandega and Masaya, and that 10,000 people may have fled the country during the violence...