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Nicaraguan Revolution

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was Murdered

Tuesday Jan 10, 1978
Nicaragua

On 10 January 1978, the editor of the Managua newspaper La Prensa, and founder of the Union for Democratic Liberation (UDEL), Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was murdered by suspected elements of the Somoza regime, and riots broke out in the capital city, Managua, targeting the Somoza regime.


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