Today in Labor History August 22, 1978: The Sandinistas captured the Nicaraguan National Palace launching the Sandinista revolution. The red and black symbolism on the flags of the modern Sandinistas, as well as Sandino’s movement in the 1930s, came from the anarchosyndicalists. Sandino spent much of the 1920s working with Mexican anarchosyndicalists, including the IWW.

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Today in Labor History February 21, 1934: Augusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguan independence fighter, was assassinated by Somoza’s Nation Guard. While in exile in Mexico during the early 1920s, Sandino participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the anarcho-syndicalist union, he adopted their red and black logo as the colors for the revolutionary Nicaraguan flag.

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Today in Labor History January 20, 1925: Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician was born. Cardinal was a liberation theologian. He also founded the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived from 1965–1977. When the Sandinistas (FSLN) took power, they chose him to be minister of culture from 1979-1987. He quit the FSLN in 1994, protesting the autocratic rule of Daniel Ortega. Cardinal called it "a dictatorship not a revolutionary movement."

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