We visited the revolution museum to get the low down. The US has a lot to make up for in Nicaragua (according to any reasonable person, oh, and the International Court of Justice, not that the US recognises the finding).
US influence dominated political control over the country since 1909, the US military occupation of Nicaragua from 1927-1933, gave rise to the revolutionary hero of Central America, Augusto Cesar Sandio. The US provided support to the maintenance of several generations of the evil Somoza dictatorship from 1934-1979.
The Sandinista revolution from 1972-1990, where the local people successfully held off the Carter and Regan regimes attacks for US control over the country, to secure freedom for Nicaragua is celebrated vivaciously by the people here.
It seems the people feel that nearly a century of struggle has been worth it for independence. The Sandinista movement maintains democratic majority to this day.
Leon is also home of the largest Catherdral is Central America, and the first University on the continent.
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