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For the workers and peasants of Nicaragua, July 19 1979 marked the final defeat of hated US backed dictator Anastasio Somoza. Over 50000 Nicaraguans lost their lives as the hated National Guard tried to defeat the revolutionary movement led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
The Somocistas adopted a scorched earth policy as they Hated, including the bombing of civilian areas of the capital, Managua. They left enor| mous devastation behind them . The new Nicaragua would | have to be built upon ruins. | The defeat of the National Guard, the mass organisation and participation of the people in the revolution and the installation of a workers and peasants government led by the FSLN in Nicaragua at least after April 980 if not after the actual insurrection, opened the way for many gains for the Nicaraguan workers and peasants.
Since the revolution the FSLN-led government has: **Nationalised the vast wealth of Somoza and his followers.
**Nationalised the banks and insurance houses **Expropriated the land of the Somocistas and of landowners who leave land fallow and distributed it to co-operative farms and landless peasants. A further 6000 families received land this year as 350 square miles of land was turned over - 80% to cooperatives and 20% to individual families.
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**Built nearly 8000 new houses, proportional to Nicaragua’s population this is the largest government housing program in Central America.
**Announced that rented housing will become the property of its occupants. Rent and landlords are on the way out in Nicaragua!
**/ncreased social spending on health, welfare, education, succeeding in wiping out Polio in 1982 and bringing: the level of illiteracy down to the second lowest in Latin America.
**Encouraged the self-organisation of the oppressed through trade unions, local neighbourhood committees, Sandinista Defence Committees (CDS) and organised a people’s militia through the CDS. States Government. The U.S. is determined to defeat the workers and peasants and to this end has cut off all economic aid to this devastated country, has threatened a blockade against Nicaragua and has organised many military provocations most notably the ‘Big Pine’ manoeuvres. as well as arming the Somociste guerillas in Honduras.
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