Sandinista, n. (a.)
(ˌsændɪˈniːstə, -ˈnɪstə)
[Sp., f. the name of Augusto César Sandino (1893–1934), Nicaraguan nationalist leader + -ista -ist.]
A supporter of Sandino; a member of the revolutionary Nicaraguan guerrilla organization founded by him or of a similar organization founded in his name in 1963. Also attrib. or as adj.
| 1928 Nation (N.Y.) 29 Feb. 232/2 Everybody from here on was a Sandinista; the trail was full of Sandinistas. 1931 Foreign Affairs (N.Y.) IX. 499 A purely objective view of the facts hardly warrants calling the Sandinistas ‘bandits’. 1954 Southwestern Social Sci. Q. (U.S.) Sept. 140 The Guardia's inability to destroy the Sandinista movement did not permit the early withdrawal of the marines. 1967 N. Macaulay Sandino Affair iii. 55 On November 2 [1926] he led this force in an attack on the two-hundred-man government garrison at J{iacu}caro, near San Albino. The Sandinistas killed some of the defenders. 1974 N.Y. Times 29 Dec. 1/4 The guerrillas, members of the so-called Sandinista Front, were said to have demanded the release of some 40 political prisoners. 1977 Time 31 Oct. 16/1 Others, like the Sandinista guerrillas of Nicaragua or the Islamic Marxists of Iran, have specific targets. 1980 Ann. Reg. 1979 66 A new Government, formed by the Sandinistas, was quickly recognized by the US. |