Word: tipitapa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hideouts of at least 20 guerrillas during the civil war. New York Democratic Congressman John Murphy, a longtime friend of Somoza's, claimed that the Sandinistas were executing "thousands" of guardsmen and their families. In fact, the 3,000 guardsmen locked up in Modelo Prison at Tipitapa, 30 miles from Managua, insist that they have been well treated. Asserted the prison's security chief, Marcio Maierna Ortiz: "We want our revolution to be an example to all of Latin America...