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Tomas Borge Martínez, Last Sandinista Founder, Dead at 81

HeadlineMay 01, 2012

Tomas Borge Martínez, one of the founders of Nicaragua’s Sandinista movement, has died at the age of 81. He was the last surviving founder of the guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua’s U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979.

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