The leader praised China and Russia on the 46th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, in a ceremony that lacked any high-profile international guests
The former guerrilla who became head of the Sandinista Popular Army was a feared and respected figure in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Fallen into disgrace and at odds with Vice President Rosario Murillo, he died at the age of 77 from heart complications while under house arrest by order of the presidential couple
45 years after Somoza’s flight, the country struggles to reckon with its past
The president, who began his political career under the wing of the leftist group, now wants to erase it from the political map, but analysts see a ‘rescue of the party’s revolutionary principles’ as possible
