Upon assuming power, the FSLNs political platform included the following: nationalization of property owned by the Somozas and their supporters ; land reform ; improved rural and urban working conditions ; free unionization for all workers, both urban and rural ; price fixing for commodities of basic necessity ; improved public services, housing conditions, education ; abolition of torture, political assassination and the death penalty ; protection of democratic liberties ; equality for women ; non-aligned foreign policy ; formation of a " popular army " under the leadership of the FSLN and Humberto Ortega.

Nevertheless, while ideologies varied between FSLN leaders, all leaders essentially agreed that Sandino provided a path for the Nicaragua masses to take charge, and the FSLN would act as the legitimate vanguard.

But the civil war, conscription into the army, the collapse of the economy, and the curtailment of civil liberties in the mid-1980s all combined to cause the defeat of the FSLN government in February 1990 elections.

Some of those organizations were the Socialist Party ( 1963 ), Federación Democrática ( which support the FSLN in rural areas ), and Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women (, AMNLAE ).

Between 1959 and 1963, Fonseca and those who would become the earliest members of the FSLN " experimented with a variety of different organizational forms " in the hopes of forming a true revolutionary organization.

Argüello was actively involved in Nicaraguan politics with the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN )-- the same party against whom he took up arms in the 1980s — and in 2004 was elected vice-mayor of Managua.

The FAO and Carter came up with a plan that would remove Somoza from office but left no part in government power for the FSLN.

Nine men, three from each tendency, formed the National Directorate which would lead the reunited FSLN.

Among other parties that abstained was COSEP, who had warned the FSLN that they would decline participation unless freedom of the press was reinstituted.

In 2010, several liberal congressmen raised accusations about the FSLN presumably attempting to buy votes in order to pass constitutional reforms that would allow Ortega to run for office for the 6th time since 1984.

A fairly broad definition of the time of the Nicaraguan revolution would be from the formal founding of the FSLN in 1961, to its 1990 election loss to Violetta Barrios de Chamorro and the Unión Nacional Opositora which marked the end of its first period in power.

The meetings were frequented by people who would later become part of the FSLN.

Her picture would frequently show up in the hands of Nicaraguans at FSLN celebrations throughout Nicaragua.

A concept that would one day be adopted by the Marxist-Leninist FSLN.

The members of the new junta were Daniel Ortega ( FSLN ), Moisés Hassan ( FPN ), Sergio Ramírez ( the " Twelve "), Alfonso Robelo ( MDN ) and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the widow of La Prensas director Pedro Joaquín Chamorro.

Daniel Ortega and Sergio Ramírez were elected president and vice-president, and the FSLN won an overwhelming 61 out of 96 seats in the new National Assembly, having taken 67 % of the vote on a turnout of 75 %.

It was reported that the Bolivian Movement for Socialism, International Marxist Tendency, the Salvadoran FMLN, the Nicaraguan FSLN, the Ecuadorian PAIS Alliance, the Chilean Proposal for an Alternative Society, the Guatemalan New Nation Alliance, and the Australian Socialist Alliance are likely to join the new International.

A leader in the socialist Sandinista National Liberation Front ( Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN ), his policies in government have seen the implementation of leftist reforms across Nicaragua.

On 27 December 1974, a group of FSLN guerrillas invaded a party at the home of the Minister of Agriculture, killing him in the process of taking several leading government officials hostage.

In return for the hostages they succeeded in getting the government to pay US $ 1 million ransom, broadcast an FSLN declaration on the radio and in La Prensa, release fourteen FSLN members from jail, and fly the raiders and the released FSLN members to Cuba.

The incident humiliated the government and greatly enhanced the prestige of the FSLN.

Opposition groups, however, said that the FSLN domination of government organs, mass organizations groups, and much of the media created a climate of intimidation that precluded a truly open election .".

American support for the long rule of the Somoza family had soured relations, and the FSLN government was committed to a Marxist ideology, with many of the leading Sandinista continuing long-standing relationships with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place.

In the 2006 Nicaraguan general election, former FSLN President Daniel Ortega was re-elected President of Nicaragua with 38. 7 % of the vote compared to 29 % for his leading rival, bringing in the country's second Sandinista government after 16 years of the opposition winning elections.

In December 1974, a guerrilla group affiliated with FSLN seized government hostages at a party in the house of the Minister of Agriculture in the Managua suburb Los Robles, among them several leading Nicaraguan officials and Somoza relatives.

After their loss, most of the Sandinista leaders held most of the private property and businesses that had been confiscated and nationalized by the FSLN government.

The ideology of Sandinismo gained momentum in 1974, when a Sandinista initiated hostage situation resulted in the Somoza government adhering to FSLN demands and publicly printing and airing work on Sandino in well known newspapers and media outlets.

In the following several years, the FSLN tried with little success to organize guerrilla warfare against the government of Luis Somoza Debayle.

By 1987, 31 % of the executive positions in the Sandinista government, 27 % of the leadership positions of the FSLN, and 25 % of the FSLN's active membership were women.

* Gioconda Belli, novelist and poet, handled media relations for the FSLN government

Sandino's legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ), which overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.

At the end of 1982, a few years after the revolutionary victory, Pastora became disillusioned with the government of the FSLN, and formed the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ( ARDE ) with the object of confronting the " pseudo-Sandinistas " politically and militarily.

As of 2010, he is reconciled with the FSLN and holds a ministerial post in the government of Daniel Ortega.

In 1974, the growing Sandinista movement FSLN ( named after the assassinated Sandino ) succeeded in forcing the government to accept an amnesty, after which Somoza Debayle declared a state of siege and the National Guard launched a violent and repressive reaction.

MAP-ML was generally critical against the mixed economy during the FSLN government.

Obando served as an intermediary between the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) and the Somoza government on two occasions during Sandinista staged hostage-taking incidents.

Ortega and the FSLN were re-elected again in the presidential election of November 2011.

Many of the FSLN guerrillas were killed, including its leader and founder Carlos Fonseca in 1976.

Of the twelve seats reserved for political parties, only three were not allied to the FSLN.

No fewer than 50 FSLN candidates were assassinated.

The results of these elections were that the FSLN won 42. 6 % of the vote for parliament ( versus 52. 6 % for the PLC ), giving them 41 out of the 92 seats in the National Assembly ( versus 48 for the PLC ).

During the long struggle against Somoza, the FSLN leaders ' internal disagreements over strategy and tactics were reflected in three main factions:

Providing subsidies for basic foodstuffs and the introduction of mass employment were also memorable contributions of the FSLN.

Her other children were active Sandinistas ; Claudia was ambassador to Costa Rica and Carlos became the editor of the FSLN daily newspaper Barricada.

This brigade was opposed by the reunified Fourth International because it operated outside the discipline of the FSLN ; the only other Trotskyists to participate were Pierre Lamberts ' Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International.

The non-Nicaraguan members of the Brigade were expelled from the country by the FSLN.

By mid-1966, plans for a second FSLN guerrilla operation in the Pancasan region ( near Matagalpa ) were underway.

Fonseca, along with a few other FSLN leaders were " committed to the idea of including women ", however, some of the other fighters were not comfortable fighting alongside women.

The association between the perpetrator and the FSLN led Tamayo, to conclude that the Sandinistas were solely responsible.