Nicaraguan Revolution

1961–1990 anti-Somoza revolution and Sandinista rule

The Nicaraguan Revolution (Spanish: Revolución nicaragüense), or Sandinista Revolution (Revolución popular sandinista, 'Sandinista People's Revolution') was an armed conflict that took place in the Central American country of Nicaragua between 1961 and 1990. It began with rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the overthrow of the dictatorship in 1978–1979, and fighting between the new government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990. The revolution revealed the country as one of the major proxy war battlegrounds of the Cold War.

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