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In December 1974, a group of the FSLN, in an attempt to kidnap U.S. ambassador Turner Shelton, held some Managuan partygoers hostage (after killing the host, former agriculture minister, Jose Maria Castillo), until the Somozan government met their demands for a large ransom and free transport to Cuba. Somoza granted this, then subsequently sent his national guard out into the countryside to look for the perpetrators of the kidnapping, described by opponents of the kidnapping as "terrorists".<ref>{{cite book|first1=Pamela|last1=Constable|first2=Arturo|last2=Valenzuela|year=1991|title=A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationofenemiesc00cons/page/150 150]|isbn=978-0-393-30985-0|url=https://archive.org/details/nationofenemiesc00cons/page/150}}</ref>
On January 10, 1978, [[Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal]], the editor of the national newspaper ''[[La Prensa (Managua)|La Prensa]]'' and ardent opponent of Somoza, was
The Sandinistas forcefully took power in July 1979, ousting Somoza, and prompting the exodus of the majority of Nicaragua's middle class, wealthy landowners, and professionals, many of whom settled in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nordheimer|first1=Jon|title=Nicaraguan Exiles Find A Place In The Sun: Miami|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/29/us/nicaraguan-exiles-find-a-place-in-the-sun-miami.html|accessdate=May 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=July 29, 1987}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Wilkinson|first1=Tracy|title=Families Struggle to Maintain Life Style : Sandinista Rule Not Easy on Middle Class|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1988-08-07/news/mn-373_1_middle-class-families|accessdate=May 27, 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 7, 1988}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Wicker|first1=Tom|title=In The Nation; The Sandinista Puzzle|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/29/opinion/in-the-nation-the-sandinista-puzzle.html|accessdate=May 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=July 29, 1983}}</ref> The Carter administration decided to work with the new government, while attaching a provision for aid forfeiture if it was found to be assisting insurgencies in neighboring countries.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pastor|first=Robert|title=Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America and the Caribbean|publisher=Westview Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0-8133-3811-8|url=https://archive.org/details/exitingwhirlpool00past}}</ref> Somoza fled the country and eventually ended up in [[Paraguay]], where he was assassinated in September 1980, allegedly by members of the Argentinian Revolutionary Workers' Party.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline: Nicaragua|publisher=Stanford University|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/arts/nicaragua/discovery_eng/timeline/|accessdate=2007-05-09}}</ref>
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