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Nicaraguan rebels, under Augusto Cesar Sandino, launch a rebellion against the right-wing government of Emiliano Chamorro Vargas. In the early fall the uprising is quelled with the help of U.S. Marines, and on 11 November a conservative, Adolfo Diaz, is elected president. In December Juan Bautista Sacasa, the liberal vice president forced out by Sandino, sets up an opposition government, and civil war ensues.
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