Leon was in a long civil war with Granada. They invited William Walker (secretly an American) to help fight. He declared himself president and was later killed.
Leon is fiercely Liberal, and most people who live there are Sandinistas.
In 1956 the original dictator of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza Garcia was killed by Rigoberto lopez, a famous poet.
Maria gave us a tour of the beautiful murals depicting Leon's tragic history. She was a young woman when all the fighting took place. She told us how she was pregnant at the time and had to run away from bullets with people falling dead all around her.
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