• paramilitary gendarmerie force, titled the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua (National Guard of Nicaragua). That same year, U.S. forces left the country, but after...
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    National Guard (Nicaragua) (1925–1979), a militia and gendarmerie created during the occupation by the United States National Guard (United States),...
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    Northern coast of Nicaragua, the Río Coco/Bocay-Raití campaign was largely a failure: "when guerrillas did encounter the National Guard, they had to retreat...
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  • United States to sponsor the National Guard as an apolitical institution to assume all military and police functions in Nicaragua. The marines provided the...
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  • July they had Somoza and the National Guard isolated in Managua. As Nicaragua's government collapsed and the National Guard commanders escaped with Somoza...
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    Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi). With...
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    military. The National Police of Nicaragua came from the popular breast. Its training began in July 1979 after the overthrow of the National Guard, the armed...
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    Anastasio Somoza Debayle (category People from León, Nicaragua)
    1980) was the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and again from 1974 to 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country...
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    help of the US Marine Corps, which occupied Nicaragua at the time, Somoza became the head of the National Guard. This gave him the power base to remove his...
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    The United States occupation of Nicaragua from 1912 to 1933 was part of the Banana Wars, when the U.S. military invaded various Latin American countries...
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    Augusto César Sandino (category National Heroines and Heroes of Nicaragua)
    García resumed control of the National Guard and established a dictatorship and Somoza family dynasty that ruled Nicaragua for more than 40 years. Sandino's...
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    units. Before 1979 the Nicaraguan National Guard had some air units (Fuerza Aérea de la Guardia Nacional). In 1920, the National Guard received from the United...
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    Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a left-wing political party in Nicaragua. Its members...
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    Somoza family (category History of Nicaragua)
    presidents and via their control of the National Guard. While the Somoza family moved towards modernizing Nicaragua, their rule featured repression and inequality...
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  • National Heroines and Heroes of Nicaragua are promulgated by legal decree of the Nicaraguan Legislature. Those who receive the title are people who were...
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    the U.S. occupation and the Nicaraguan establishment. In 1933, the Marines withdrew and left the Nicaraguan National Guard in charge of internal security...
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    Bill Stewart (journalist) (category 1979 crimes in Nicaragua)
    ABC News who was murdered by Nicaraguan government National Guard ("Guardia") forces while reporting on the Nicaraguan Revolution as Sandinista rebel...
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  • Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (category Children of presidents of Nicaragua)
    (1990-08-17). "President Chamorro seeks pardon for killers of husband". United Press International. Contras Nicaraguan revolution National Guard (Nicaragua)...
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    Luis Somoza Debayle (category People from León, Nicaragua)
    the National Guard Mausoleum in Managua, Nicaragua. His wife Isabel moved to Houston, Texas in the early 1990s, and died there in 2014. National Guard (Nicaragua)...
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    vigilance. Read the section below on aircraft on display.  Nicaragua National Guard (Nicaragua) Nicaraguan Air Force  Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Defence...
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    Sandinista Popular Army (category Military of Nicaragua)
    government of Nicaragua to replace the Nicaraguan National Guard, following the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In post-Sandinista Nicaragua, the SPA...
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  • Legion, which comprised mostly former members of Somoza's National Guard, with the Nicaraguan Democratic Union, an organization of émigrés from the business...
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  • National Guard (El Salvador), a former gendarmerie National Guard (Nicaragua), a Nicaraguan former militia Venezuelan National Guard, of the National...
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    León (Spanish pronunciation: [leˈon]) is the second largest city in Nicaragua, after Managua. Founded by the Spanish as Santiago de los Caballeros de...
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  • Prostitution in Nicaragua is legal, but promoting prostitution and procuring are prohibited. The minimum age for prostitutes is 18 years old. It was estimated...
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  • Enrique Bermúdez (category 1990s murders in Nicaragua)
    policy-related initiatives in the district. List of unsolved murders National Guard (Nicaragua) Nicaraguan Revolution Sandinista Popular Army Digital, Edición (2017-02-16)...
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  • the Nicaraguan Revolution. Those who joined the Sandinista movement in the revolutionary Nicaragua essentially fought a battle: to secure national freedom...
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    Contras (redirect from Nicaraguan contras)
    elements of Nicaraguan society: Ex-guardsmen of the Nicaraguan National Guard and other right-wing figures who had fought for Nicaragua's ex-dictator...
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    Military police Police Carabinier Field Force National Guard (disambiguation) United States National Guard State Police (United States) Constabulary People's...
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    Defense Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas de Defensa de Panamá; FFDD) formerly the National Guard (of Panama) (Spanish: Guardia Nacional), were the armed forces of the...
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