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  Nicaragua - MSN Encarta
Taking their name from General Sandino, they called themselves Sandinistas and their movement the Sandinista National Liberation Front (known by its Spanish abbreviation FSLN).
The FSLN's founders—Carlos Fonseca Amador, Tomás Borge, and Silvio Mayorga—were Marxists who had met as university students involved in anti-Somoza activities.
They were inspired by the Cuban Revolution and supported by Castro.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577584_9/Nicaragua.html   (2756 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Toribio Mayorga
Mayorga was born 1830 in Villanueva, Chinandega,Nicaragua, and died 1909 in Villanueva, Chinandega,Nicaragua.
She was born 1830 in Villanueva, Chinandega,Nicaragua, and died 1898 in Villanueva, Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Mayorga Salinas, born 1852 in Villanueva, Chinandega, Nicaragua.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/c/a/s/Ana--M-Castelinegarcia/GENE2-0001.html   (67 words)

  
 Nicaragua - The Rise of the FSLN
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional--FSLN) was formally organized in Nicaragua in 1961.
Founded by José Carlos Fonseca Amador, Silvio Mayorga, and Tomás Borge Martínez, the FSLN began in the late 1950s as a group of student activists at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua--UNAN) in Managua.
Borge spent several years in jail, and Fonseca spent several years in exile in Mexico, Cuba, and Costa Rica.
countrystudies.us /nicaragua/12.htm   (543 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of Toribio Mayorga
Mayorga) was born 1852 in Villanueva, Chinandega, Nicaragua.
Reyes Mayorga, born January 10, 1894 in Villanueva, Chinandega,Nicaragua; died February 01, 1932 in El Sauce, Nicaragua.
Teresa Reyes Mayorga, born in Villanueva, Chinandega,Nicaragua; died February 28, 1971 in El Sauce,Nicaragua.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/c/a/s/Ana--M-Castelinegarcia/GENE2-0002.html   (104 words)

  
 Nicaragua_1983
Fonseca, Tomas Borge and Silvio Mayorga founded the FSLN in 1961.
Fonseca and Mayorga both died at the hands of Somoza's National Guard.
Tomas Borge survived, and became Minister of the Interior in the Sandinista government.
www.williamgbecker.com /nicaragua_1983.html   (3037 words)

  
 Rainbow Network - Non-profit organization working with the people of Nicaragua
A group from Community United Methodist Church in Columbia, Missouri finished building houses in and dedicated the Colonis Silvio Mayorga housing project which was funded by Community United Methodist Church.
A group from Schweitzer United Methodist Church in Springfield, MO were led by Mark and Dorothy Hansen and Schweitzer pastor Bob Casady.
The group worked in the housing project of Silvio Mayorga in the Nagarote network.
www.rainbownetwork.org /ministrytrips.htm   (196 words)

  
 Sandinista National Liberation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pastora organized his group -- which was later to take the official name ADRE -- in the late 1950's, and was the first group to call itself "Sandinistas".
During 1961, another group -- the FSLN -- was formally organised by three Marxist students from Managua, Carlos Fonseca Amador, Tomás Borge Martínez and Silvio Mayorga.
In a disputed book published under one "Mitrokhin" -- a man alleged to have worked as a Soviet-era, KGB archivist for some 30 years -- it has been asserted that these students were recruits of the KGB.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FSLN   (8201 words)

  
 Revista Envío - USAID's Strategy in Nicaragua
But it must be said that the coincidence between the government's expectations of the counter reform and those of AID were such that it was unnecessary for AID to have much political visibility.
A Mayorga, a Silvio de Franco and a Pereira [former or current members of Chamorro's economic Cabinet] and even Lacayo himself had and have the same vision as AID, which means that they never had any serious conflicts.
There were occasionally different viewpoints regarding the speed of the counter reform and how to gain greater political viability to carry it out.
www.envio.org.ni /articulo/1680   (4101 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 17 | 1979: Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital
But the Sandinista-backed provisional government currently based in the city of Leon is expected to force Mr Urcuyo to resign.
The Sandinistas, named after Nicaraguan resistance leader Augusto Cesar Sandino, was set up in 1962 by Carlos Fonseca Amador, Silvio Mayorga and Tomas Borge.
For the last seven years they have waged a civil war against the Somoza government.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/17/newsid_3870000/3870281.stm   (607 words)

  
 SSHL: Collections: Latin American Studies: Elections
The Sandinistas emulated the guerrilla strategies of Castro and Sandino in their struggle to topple the Somozas and implement a socialist revolution” (page 472).
Pezzullo 1993: On July 23 1961 the “Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded by Carlos Fonseca, Tomás Borge, and Silvio Mayorga in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Pezzullo 1993: In May 1967 the “Pancasán guerrilla ‘foco’ is organized into three columns: under Carlos Fonseca (HQ group), Tomás Borge (logistical line to Matagalpa), and Silvio Mayorga (mountain raiding column)” (page 256).
sshl.ucsd.edu /collections/las/nicaragua/1937.html   (10411 words)

  
 Index Bo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
In July 1961 he, together with Carlos Fonseca Amador and Silvio Mayorga - all veterans of the student struggle of the 1950s - met in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, to found the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
They drew their inspiration from Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba and from a Nicaraguan folk hero, Gen. Augusto César Sandino, who in 1927 had organized an army of workers and peasants to drive out the U.S. Marines then occupying the country.
In 1994 the Northern League became the largest political faction in the nation on the strength of its federalist message, distance from incumbent corruption, and timely alliance with Silvio Berlusconi, who was elected prime minister that March.
www.manic-raven.com /rulers/indexb4.html   (13225 words)

  
 Restoring Democracy In Nicaragua: No U.S. Aid Without Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Their goal was the overthrow of the regime of the Somoza family, which had ruled Nicaragua since the 1930s, and the creation of a communist state in Nicaragua.
According to former Nicaraguan Central Bank President Silvio de Franco, the Nicaraguan army still serves as a partisan military force for the FSLN and acts like a state within a state.
According to Alfred0 Cesar, Silvio de Franco, and other critics of the Chamom government, of the 225 million in U.S. economic assistance to Nicmgua last-year, between $100 million-and $180 million cannot be accounted for.
new.heritage.org /Research/LatinAmerica/bg933.cfm   (8377 words)

  
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Rather, there were staged by individuals or dissatisfied army officers.
It was also during his presidency that university students Carlos Fonseca, Tomas Borge, and Silvio Mayorga founded the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) in 1961.
While Luis was President, his younger brother continued at the head of the National Guard.
www.ans.edu.ni /Academics/history/somozaluis.html   (1141 words)

  
 HIST 382: Nicaragua under Somoza   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Somoza family also had investments in construction, air transportation, meat packing, real estate, banking, lottery, auto imports, etc.
1961: FSLN was founded by Carlos Amador Fonseca, Tomás Borge, and Silvio Mayorga.
Inspired by the Cuban revolution, failed to generate support for guerrilla warfare in the 1960s
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~caguirre/382_7.html   (554 words)

  
 From FOCO to Insurrection: Sandinista Strategies of Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Back in Nicaragua, however, the three Sandinista columns under Fonseca, Borge, and Silvio Mayorga were more interested in organizing a viable peasant support network than in provoking firefights with the National Guard.
Peasant informers and the Guard's helicopter mobility led to the destruction of the Mayorga column in August.
The loss of one-third of the organization's strength sent the survivors fleeing first to the cities and then into Cuban or Costa Rican exile when the urban underground collapsed in November.
www.airpower.au.af.mil /airchronicles/aureview/1986/jul-aug/nolan.html   (7491 words)

  
 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
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Biography: Tomas Borge Martinez, Silvio Mayorga, and Carlos Fonseca formed the "National Liberation Front" in Honduras in 1960.
The group added the "Sandinista" to its name two years later.
www.tkb.org /KeyLeader.jsp?memID=4090   (185 words)

  
 History: Perspectives for the Nicaraguan revolution
The question is how to obtain a lasting victory for the masses as a whole.
The FSLN traces its history back to 1962, being created by Carlos Fonseca, Silvio Mayorga and Tomas Borge.
Many of its founding members were drawn from the pro Moscow orientated PSN (Nicaraguan Socialist Party), fundamentally because they were dissatisfied with the lack of a serious or combative struggle being waged against the dictatorship.
www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/07/25nicaraguab.html   (11088 words)

  
 Marxist "Science" and Revolutionary "Faith" in Nicaragua
The protractecd war theory emphasized the guerrilla's need to organize the peasantry and develop a clandestine support structure.
In the Sandinistas' first guerrilla action during this period--a battle with the National Guard at Pancasan in August 1967--35 FSLN combatants were killed, including one of the organization's founders, Silvio Mayorga.
Nonetheless, the prolonged-war theory remained the FSLN's guiding doctrine for almost ten years.
www.worldandi.com /public/1986/january/bk7.cfm   (4675 words)

  
 League for the Fifth International | Permanent Revolution 07
The nature of the regime that emerged after the 1979 insurrection can only be understood by examining the politics and strategy of the FSLN from its foundation in 1961.
The three founding members of the FSLN, Carlos Fonseca Amador, Tomás Borge and Silvio Mayorga had all been members of the Stalinist Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN).
The three ex-students had already been politically moulded in underground struggle against the Somoza family dictatorship which had been in power since 1936.
www.fifthinternational.org /index.php?id=65,248,0,0,1,0   (14363 words)

  
 Lenin in context (by L. Proyect)
The Cubans, by everybody's recognition, have been instrumental in forging such unity.
Carlos Fonseca founded the Sandinista movement in 1961 along with Tomas Borge and Silvio Mayorga.
In the early 1970's, the FSLN went through a series of crises and eventually split into three factions.
www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/organization/lenin_in_context.htm   (12593 words)

  
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Its three founders had been student leftists in the 1950s, who then became communists.
They were Tomas Borge (the only survivor of the original group, and a member of the Sandinista leadership after July 1979), Silvio Mayorga (killed in 1967), and the original leader, Carlos Fonseca, who had studied in the USSR.
He published a book in 1958, titled A Nicaraguan in Moscow, in which he claimed that the Soviet Union had freedom of the press and freedom of religion.
www.ku.edu /~eceurope/communistnationssince1917/ch13.html   (18467 words)

  
 Slashdot | The Dangers of Open Content
So forget the idea that it's just that people might come across the article on the minute or hour that it had a vandalized version.
For example, the FSLN [wikipedia.org] article has an introduction, and then begins "The FSLN was formally organised in 1961 by recent KGB recruits Carlos Fonseca Amador, Tomás Borge Martínez and Silvio Mayorga." The rest of the article goes on in that sort of tone.
I don't know how many people in the world think the main purpose of the FSLN was to establish a satellite of the USSR "two days driving time from Harlingen, Texas", but obviously that is what is considered in this article.
slashdot.org /articles/06/07/16/1345246.shtml   (6369 words)

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