At 14:37 26-5-01 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
> > Nicaragua wasn't "taken over" by the Soviet Union, btw. It had an
>*elected*
> > Marxist government.
>
>Can you cite a source on that. I didn't remember that, so I looked at
>
>http://www.wtgonline.com/data/nic/nic580.asp
>
>and found
>
>"....by General Anastasio Somoza Garcia, who seized power in 1935 and whose
>family ruled Nicaragua in an increasingly brutal, despotic and corrupt
>manner until 1979. In that year, after a 17-year guerrilla war, the last
>Somoza was overthrown by the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional
>(FSLN). "
>
>
>This does not sound like an election to me. If this source is inaccurate,
>I'd apprecate other sources that gave the date of the elections and such.
A quick search turned up the following.
From http://www.waermegeben.de/nicaragua.html:
"In 1984 elections the Sandinista presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega
Saavedra, won by a large margin."
Jeroen
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