paramilitary gendarmerie force, titled the Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua (National Guard of Nicaragua). That same year, U.S. forces left the country, but after...

National Guard (Nicaragua) (1925–1979), a militia and gendarmerie created during the occupation by the United States National Guard (United States),...

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...

United States to sponsor the National Guard as an apolitical institution to assume all military and police functions in Nicaragua. The marines provided the...

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi). With...

July they had Somoza and the National Guard isolated in Managua. As Nicaragua's government collapsed and the National Guard commanders escaped with Somoza...

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...

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...

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...

Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) is a left-wing political party in Nicaragua. Its members...