A member of a revolutionary group in Niceragua during the mid-70's. The group succeeded in overthrowing the government in that time, but they are facing large opposition in the present. Their current party name is FSLN, Frente Sandinista de la Liberacion de Niceragua.
The Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front) usually referred to as simply the Sandinistas or FSLN is a leftist political movement in Nicaragua. Also subjectively refered to as a recorded musical album of the same name produced by politically vocal, pro communist group The Clash.
By 1980 Sandinista organizations embraced some 250,000 Nicaraguans. Less than a year after their victory, the Sandinistas controlled the government.