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Nicaragua's turbulent past remembered

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It is 30 years since a band of revolutionaries in Nicaragua known as the Sandinistas ousted a dictator, and triggered a US-funded counter-insurgency that came to be known as the ''Contra War.''

Stephen Gibbs reports from Managua on the changes brought by the many years of political turmoil.

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