''El Pueblo'' ('The People') was a revolutionary newspaper published in

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. ''El Pueblo'' was the organ of ''

Frente Obrero for, es, , Workers Front (FO) was a national trade union centre in Nicaragua. It was founded c. 1972-74, as the trade union wing of the MAP-ML. When the National Reconstruction Government was formed on July 19, 1979, FO had one of 33 represe ...

'' ('Workers Front'), the

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wing of the

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(MAP-ML).Trujillo Bolio, Mario A.
Organización y luchas del movimiento obrero latinoamericano, 1978-1987
'. México, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1988. p. 83 The newspaper began publication in March 1979.Vargas, Oscar-René.
Nicaragua: los partidos políticos y la búsqueda de un nuevo modelo
'. Managua, Nicaragua: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo ECOTEXTURA, 1990. pp. 109-110 Published daily, ''El Pueblo'' appealed to factory workers and university students.Ameringer, Charles D.
Political Parties of the Americas: 1980s to 1990s : Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies
'. Westport, Conn. u.a: Greenwood Press, 1992. p. 463 It was published by a cooperative. Melvin Wallace served as the editor and

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was the director.Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Republic of Nicaragua
'. Washington, D.C.: General Secretariat, Organization of American States, 1981. p. 122 ''El Pueblo'' had a circulation of around 4,000-7,000 copies.Blair, Krista (Krista Margaret), and Carleton University. Dissertation. Journalism and Communication.
Communication, Revolution, and Social Movements; Freedom of the Press in Nicaragua 1979-1990
'. 1998. ''El Pueblo'' was shut down briefly by the government on July 23, 1979. On January 21, 1980, the

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government banned the newspaper on the grounds of having incited economic sabotage.Stahler-Sholk, Richard.
La Política económica en Nicaragua, 1979-88: bibliografía comentada, cronología básica
'. Managua, Nicaragua: Coordinadoría Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, 1989. p. 63 Frente Obrero had defied government orders for restraint by organizing strikes at the San Antonio sugar mills and Monterrosa plantations. MAP-ML of being 'ultra-leftists and financed by the

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'.
Centroamérica hoy
', Eds. 16–59. Unidad de Información del Programa de Apoyo a la Paz, la Cooperación y el Desarrollo en Centroamérica, 1989. p. ii. On January 23, 1980, the office of ''El Pueblo'' in

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was raided. Soldiers confiscated its printing presses and office equipment from the

Sandinista Popular Army The Sandinista Popular Army (SPA) (or People's Army; , EPS) was the military forces established in 1979 by the new Sandinista government of Nicaragua to replace the Nicaraguan National Guard, following the overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. ...

. Two journalists and one office assistant were arrested in the army raid. Various persons linked to ''El Pueblo'' were charged with counter-revolutionary activities. Wallace, Cuadra, and two Frente Obrero leaders (Isidro et al. Enríquez) were charged by the

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Court of Appeals on the grounds of articles published in ''El Pueblo'' issue no. One hundred fifty-nine was published on January 5, 1980 (which had argued that the Sandinista Front had reduced the price of coffee as retaliation of the plantation workers' militancy and that the government was not fulfilling its promises of land redistribution) and in issue number. One hundred seventy-nine was published on January 19, 1980 (which criticized the discourse of the national literacy campaign, arguing in favor of slogans calling for the end of ''

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''). The court considered the articles as having a 'potentially destabilizing effect on the Government'. After its closure, ''El Pueblo'' was replaced by ''Prensa Proletaria''.Camacho, Daniel, and Rafael Menjívar.
Los Movimientos populares en América Latina
'. México, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1989. p. 114
Update
', Vol. 6. Central American Historical Institute, 1987. p. 4 During the National Dialogue, MAP-ML demanded that the properties of ''El Pueblo'' (valued at around 300,000

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) be returned to them, a demand that the government accepted. ''El Pueblo'' resumed thrice-weekly publication in 1989 but was then generally not available at newsstands and bookshops. As of 1990, it was reportedly published weekly but had limited circulation.Cortés Domínguez, Guillermo.
La lucha por el poder: revés electoral sandinista
'. Managua, Nicaragua: Editorial Vanguardia, 1990. p. 259

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