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Sandinista

member of a Nicaraguan revolutionary group, 1928, from Spanish, from name of Augusto César Sandino (1893-1934), Nicaraguan nationalist leader; the modern organization of this name was founded in 1963. Related: Sandanistas.

Usage examples of "sandinista".

Once trained, the Contras were to be infiltrated across the border intoNicaraguato bring down the Sandinista regime.

Now they fought the tyranny of the Soviet Sandinistas, who had initiated a program of forced collectivization of the Miskito tribes.

We require that of our operatives serving with the Sandinistas and Salvadorian guerrillas and the EGP in Guatemala.

That will overcome a serious defect in the privatization process that the US demands as a condition for calling off its economic warfare: under the evil influence of the Sandinistas, the process allowed the wrong class of people -- workers in the enterprise -- to gain a share in ownership.

But he moves around a lot, depending on the intelligence information he gets on Sandinista activities from his network of local agents.

The rate of fire from the Sandinista patrol boat had died off now that the troops were ashore and in pursuit.

Blast followed blast as the Sandinistas walked the mortar rounds up the slope toward the top of the ridge, zeroing in on and bracketing Santana's position.

He and his team were expert at interdicting the Sandinista supply routes and sabotaging key industrial installations and other soft targets that disrupted the Nicaraguan economy.

The team all wore olive drab fatigues and baseball-style hats, as opposed to Sandinista uniforms, and Tigrillo watched as their apparent leader, a tall, dark-haired Yanqui, brought them to a halt, then went forward with two other men, Arabs, Tigrillo guessed, and began scanning the perimeter of the clearing.

He turned and walked over to where Snake and Tigrillo were carrying the confiszcated Russian and Sandinista weapons and equipment down through a trapdoor into a hidden storage room excavated from beneath the floor of the barn.