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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sidetracked Revolution | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ortega: the Threat Is Still There | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan: We Have a Right to Help | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Designer Glasses | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and by 1967, at the age of 22, he was already the head of the urban-resistance campaign. He helped found the Tercerista faction, or Third Party, within the divided Sandinista movement, which forged an alliance with the widespread middle-class opposition to Somoza. Mainly on the strength of that bond, the Sandinistas came to power. After serving as the first among equals in the party command and in the nine-man National Directorate, he won the presidency in a 1984 election that was boycotted by most of the moderate opposition parties. His brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the Designer Glasses | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

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