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Humberto Ortega, standing under a portrait of César Augusto Sandino, in an archive image.

Humberto Ortega, former Sandinista military strategist persecuted by the Ortega-Murillo regime, dies

Wilfredo Miranda Aburto|San José (Costa Rica)|Sep 30, 2024 - 21:22 CEST

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

Celebrations over the Sandinistas’ arrival in Managua on July 20, 1979.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua’s ghost of revolution

Mateo Jarquín|Jul 22, 2024 - 18:52 CEST

45 years after Somoza’s flight, the country struggles to reckon with its past

A supporter carries an FMLN flag during a campaign closing rally in San Salvador, January 27, 2024.

El Salvador

The collapse of the FMLN, the former Salvadoran guerrilla movement Nayib Bukele wants to eliminate

Carlos S. Maldonado|Mexico|Mar 11, 2024 - 12:30 CET

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

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