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On this day, 16 April 1979, Nicaraguan revolutionary Idania Fernández was murdered in custody by troops of the US-backed Somoza dictatorship. She had been betrayed by an informant. However, her death inspired more to take up resistance and within a month the regime was overthrown.
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