USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Ultimately, the Somoza family was overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) during the Nicaraguan Revolution . Widespread discontent with the Somoza regime emerged following the Managua earthquake of 1972.

Detailed explanation-2: -The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place. Having seized power, the Sandinistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1979, a revolution led by Sandinista guerrillas overthrew an entrenched dynastic regime in Nicaragua.

Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1980, Colonel Enrique Bermudez, a former Colonel in Somoza’s National Guard, united other former National Guard officers and anti-Sandinista civilians to form the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN). This group was known as the Northern Front because it was based in Honduras.