Assassination of Enrique Bermúdez

Date: February 16, 1991 • Location: Río Blanco, Nicaragua

Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is a country in Central America, comprising 130,370 square kilometers (50,340 sq mi). With a population of 7,097,329 as of 2026, it is the third-most populous country in Central America after Guatemala and Honduras, and the largest by area in all of Central America.