On this day in 1978, two officials associated with the Somoza regime were killed and two police officers wounded by likely Sandinista terrorists in Nicaragua.
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When terrorists become rulers
Bringing in (former) terrorists to run nations is generally a very bad idea: terrorist groups are not even remotely qualified to do so.
On September 6, 1970 a member of the Sandinista was shot and killed as he tried to hijack an El-Al flight leaving Amsterdam.
On this day in 1984 leftist terrorists belonging to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front blew up two trains in El Salvador, killing 18 people
While there is no question that the term terrorism is overused, there are puzzling occasions on which it is not used at all.
On this day in 1988 a powerful bomb ripped through a crowded South African bank in Oshakati, killing 27 and wounding 70.
On this day in 1989, the former head Honduras armed forces, Gustavo Álvarez Martínez was killed by armed men northeast of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.