Tomas Borge Martinez: Sandinista National Liberation Front

Nicaragua Dept: MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua declared three days of national mourning on Tuesday for Tomas Borge Martinez, the last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua's U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979 and replaced it with a leftist system criticized for its own repressive measures, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Borge died Monday night at 81 after being hospitalized for pneumonia and other ailments. Borge joined with Carlos Fonseca Amador and others in 1961 to found the National Sandinista Liberation Front. It was named for Augusto Cesar Sandino, who fought against U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua in the 1930s. Ortega joined the front later and became its leader and fILE - In this Oct, 25, 2006 file photo. Tomas Borge, a founder of the FSLN, or Sandinista National Liberation Front, and Interior Minister during the 1980's swims in the Tiscapa lagoon in Managua, Nicaragua. Borge, the last surviving founder of the Sandinista guerrilla movement that overthrew Nicaragua's U.S.-backed right-wing dictatorship in 1979 died Monday. He was 81. AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File Borge's longtime ally President Daniel Ortega announced the mourning period on state television channel Viva Nicaragua, which said funeral services would be held Tuesday in the capital's central Plaza of the Revolution, (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.