Word: somoza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With all my heart, I tell you that it is worse here now than it was in the times of the Somoza dictatorship...
...personal ideology. I admire Marx because I feel his thoughts are useful for humanity. But I identify first of all with Sandino. I rejected Somoza and U.S. intervention. I grew up with this reality. We were anti-Somoza and anti- Yankee. We didn't think there were any good Yankees...
...religion. I admire Christ as a fighter for the people, as an instrument of liberation. But I didn't respect the bishops who supported Somoza...
...Sandinista regime. What happened there was a hijacking. The people of Nicaragua set out to get rid of a, certainly you could not call it a totalitarian government, but an authoritarian government: the Somoza dictatorship. The revolutionaries appealed to the Organization of American States and said, "Would you ask Somoza to step down so we can end the killing?" The OAS asked them, "What are your revolutionary goals?" They told them democracy, pluralistic society, free trade, freedom of religion. But among the revolutionaries there was an organization that had existed before the revolution--the Sandinistas, a Communist organization...
...children, was born in 1945 in the northern town of La Libertad. His father, a small businessman, was an avid supporter of the guerrilla forces of the legendary Augusto Cesar Sandino, who was killed by the dictatorship's National Guard. Both father and mother were imprisoned under the first Somoza regime, and Daniel was jailed for his activism at the age of 15. His younger brother Camilo was killed in 1978 during the Nicaraguan revolution, and another brother, Humberto, fought side by side with Daniel until the Sandinistas took Managua...