The Sandinista Youth, its full name being Juventud Sandinista 19 de Julio (19 July Sandinista Youth),is described as an auxiliary organization of the Sandinista Front, reportedly led in 1988 by Carlos Carrión. [ 1989 International Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1989), p. 115.] One source states that the Sandinista Youth united the pro-FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) secondary and university groups during the anti-Somoza insurrection, and currently coordinates student organizational activity. [ World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, Second Edition, (New York: Facts on File, 1987), p. 803.]

Soon after taking control of the State, the Sandinista government reportedly placed Bayardo Arce in charge of a broad range of activities related to propaganda and ideology, covering activities of the Sandinistas' mass support organizations such as the "block committees" and the Sandinista Youth. [ Shirley Christian, Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, (New York: Vintage Books, 1985), p. 218.] In 1980, Fernando Cardenal, a priest who became a cabinet member of the Sandinista government, became the director of the Sandinista Youth. [ Ibid, p. 250.]

At least one violent incident involving the Sandinista Youth was reported in the first months of the Sandinista regime when an opposition figure arrived by plane and was met by his supporters: hundreds of members of the Sandinista Youth and other support organizations reportedly arrived in army trucks and met the other group, resulting in a violent confrontation. [ Ibid, p. 327.]

Please find attached a copy of the requested documents. These include:
-Human Rights in Central America, (Antwerp: Pax Christi International, 1988), pp. 160-167;
-Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family, (New York: Vintage Books, 1985), pp. 236-272;
-Right to Survive: Human Rights in Nicaragua, (London: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1987), pp. 85-95;
-Nicaragua 1984: Democracy, Elections and War, (Toronto: Canadian Church and Human Rights Delegation, 1985), p. 8;
-Human Rights in Nicaragua: Reagan, Rhetoric and Reality, (New York/ Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch, 1985), pp. 29-48;
-Human Rights in Nicaragua 1985-1986, (New York/ Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch, 1986), pp. 54-56;
-Human Rights in Nicaragua 1986, (New York/ Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch, 1987), pp. 120-124;
-Human Rights in Nicaragua August 1987 - August 1988, (New York/ Washington, D.C.: Americas Watch, 1988), pp. 47-48.