Document #1289718

IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

1) Information on Somoza's dictatorship 1978-79; 2) Information on Sandinista political platform in 1979 and their treatment of political prisoners and dissidents. [NIC3119]

1)

Excerpts of Right to Survive: Human Rights in Nicaragua (Catholic Institute for International Relations, London: 1987, pp. 25-31.) will provide you with a summary of the Somoza's dictatorship up to 1979.
2)

To provide you with information on the political developments after the Sandinista revolution, please find attached excerpts of Nicaragua: Revolution in the Family (Shirley Christian, Vintage Books, New York: 1986, pp.139-158.) This chapter discusses all the political developments after the revolution and discusses the Sandinista political platform. Likewise, the Amnesty International Report 1980 (Amnesty International Publications, London: 1980) will provide you with information regarding the treatment of political prisoners and dissidents by the Sandinista government soon after the revolution.

ecoi.net summary:
1) Information on Somoza's dictatorship 1978-79; 2) Information on Sandinista political platform in 1979 and their treatment of political prisoners and dissidents. [NIC3119]
Country:
Nicaragua
Source:
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Document type:
Response
Language:
English
Published:
30 October 1989
Document ID:
1289718 (former ID 189700)

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