What was life like for the opposition to Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua in the 1970s? What kind of government was this?

He stepped down from office in 1972 but with the devastation caused by the 1972 earthquake, Somoza put himself back in power. He was reelected in 1974 after repealing the constitutional ban on consecutive terms and prohibiting all but the two major parties from participating in elections. Most of his second term was conducted under martial law, in response to active opposition to his strong-arm tactics by the Cuban-backed Sandinistas. Somoza’s administration continued to achieve improvements in agrarian reform, peasant welfare, economic progress, and foreign relations, but its failure to resolve the problems of unequal distribution of income and the rebuilding of Managua, which was still a shambles five years after the 1972 earthquake, caused growing unrest. In 1979 Somoza fled before Sandinista forces and went first to Miami, then The Bahamas, and finally Paraguay, where he was assassinated in exile in September 1980.

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