He served as Minister of Education from 1984 to 1990, during the Sandinista era.

Returning to Nicaragua for the first time since the Sandinista era, I was astonished at the complications and surprising turns in the lives of old friends.

Sandinistas asserted that the Mayor, who has made a crusade of ridding Managua of murals and other signs of the Sandinista era, instigated the mausoleum bombing.

He became prominent in politics during the Sandinista (FSLN) era.

NWAEG's best-known project was an intensive effort to provide agricultural research and extension services to the Nicaraguan people during the Sandinista era.

At the end of the Sandinista era, the literacy rate had declined from the level attained at the conclusion of the 1980 literacy campaign.

The situation is further complicated by 1,037 property claims made by 494 American citizens, most of whom were born here and were naturalized after they went into exile during the Sandinista era.

"As a result of those tensions, the Sandinista era was not the time to think of building a cathedral," Monsignor Montenegro said.

The Nicaraguan Air Force has only seven helicopters, he said, most of them Soviet models left over from the Sandinista era.

This week, Nicaraguans are once again assessing the Sandinista era.