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It was announced that the final general strike would begin on June 4.
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The Sandinistas controlled eighty percent of Nicaragua: twenty-three major citities and towns.
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Revolutionary movements in Nicaragua gained control of the government and removed the longtime dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The Somoza family stayed power in Nicaragua for 43 years.
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Somoza resigns and flees to Miami exiling to Paraguay.
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Sandista forces enter Managua and hundreds of thousands Nicaraguans celebrate their victory
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Somoza is assassinated in Paraguay