REED BRODY: Right. So, 40 years ago, I went to Nicaragua. Like many people of our generation, we were excited by the Sandinista revolution, which had overthrown decades of U.S.-backed family ...

Oscar Sobalvarro, was 'Comandante Ruben' during Nicaragua's 'Contra' war ... who fought against Ortega in the 1980s following the left-wing 1979 revolution. "We faced each other at that time ...

It’s 25 years since Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution catapulted Central America ... with civil war and political strife of the 1980s with Mike Lanchin, a former BBC correspondent who lived ...

In programme one, Mike travels to the former state-run coffee farm in Nicaragua ... the mid-1980s. He meets some of the farmers he picked alongside then, key supporters of the leftist revolution ...

The protests that have convulsed Nicaragua for the past two months ... They served the revolution loyally during the 1980s while the Reagan administration in Washington tried to destroy it using ...