Atlas / Organisations / Sandinismo
Sandinismo
FSLN · 1979–1990, 2007– · Nicaragua · Socialist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
National liberation, mixed economy, literacy and land reform under a revolutionary vanguard.
Economic model
Land redistribution, nationalised banking and foreign trade, a substantial retained private sector.
Organisation of powers
Revolutionary junta, then competitive elections lost in 1990 and conceded; the post-2007 government has dismantled term limits, opposition parties and press.
Reading note
Coded here for the post-2007 period. The same organisation would have been coded very differently in 1985 — an argument for coding organisations by period.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −06
Coded −6: mixed economy with land reform and nationalised banking.
- Documented act or statuteLand reform redistributed around a third of arable land; banking and foreign trade were nationalised in 1979.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +01
Coded +1: a literacy crusade alongside a Catholic social frame.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1980 literacy campaign cut illiteracy from around 50% to 13% in five months; abortion was fully criminalised in 2006.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +07
Coded +7: coded to the post-2007 period, not the 1980s.
- Documented act or statuteOpposition parties were stripped of legal status and seven presidential contenders arrested before the 2021 election.
- Documented act or statuteThe 1990 election was lost and power transferred, which is why the 1980s coordinate would be far lower.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +05
Coded +5: centralised administration with regional autonomy statutes on the Atlantic coast.
- Documented act or statuteAutonomy statutes were granted to the Caribbean coast regions in 1987.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +01
Coded +1: nationalist with a record of conflict with the Miskito on the Atlantic coast.
- Documented act or statuteMiskito communities were forcibly relocated in 1982; autonomy statutes followed in 1987.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +06
Coded +6: power taken by insurrection in 1979.
- Documented act or statuteThe Somoza dictatorship was overthrown by armed struggle after a two-year offensive.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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