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I. Introduction
Nicaragua was governed by a family dictatorship in 1937 under General Somoza for forty-four years. The dictatorship originated in 1937 when Somoza ordered the National Guard to kill the Guerrilla rebels’ leader Augusto Cesar Sandino. The rebels’ objective was constituted by the contempt for the United States intrusion in 1909. The United States sought to dispose of Zelaya (a liberal dictator since 1893) and occupy Nicaragua with military presence. United States habitation was uncontested until the Guerrillas’ strife in 1927; such conflict forces the United States to depart in 1933. However, due to their shared interests the United States trained the Nicaraguan National Guard before their expulsion. The guidance from
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The party, referred to as FSLN (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional), sought to liberate the Somoza dynasty and establish a revolutionary government. The support for FSLN was propagated prominently after two instances: the earthquake of Managua and the assassination of the leader of the opposition/Democratic Liberation Union, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. The former perturbed the citizens not only through great deprivation, but primarily because Anastasio Somoza embezzled a preponderant amount of the international aid flow for his close friends and family; increasing his own profits and control over the economy. The latter perpetuated the contempt for the dynasty as it “triggered general strike and brought together moderates and the FSLN in a united front to oust Somoza” (4). With this grew a repressive National Guard that sought to censor or oppress any insubordinates. So the FSLN Guerillas form a militia and successfully rebel against the Somoza dynasty. However, the Sandinista revolution was quickly undermined by the United States aid to Contra rebels as the United States conjectured the Sandinista government to be aiding the insurrection in El Salvador. This caused the Sandinistas to declare a state of emergency in which Nicaraguan citizens’ natural rights were violated to defend against the Contra

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