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[hiromichi]

What does "Sandinistas" have to do with in the paragraph below?

First, there were Sandinistas, followed eventually by fashionistas and urbanistas. Now Nokia, the Finnish mobile telecommunications giant, is enlisting a phalanx of bloggeristas, journalistas and travelistas to promote a new multi-function device.
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Hiromichi

[pugachevV]

Sandinistas are members of a left-wing Nicaraguan political party, the Sandinist National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional). The group was named after Augusto Cesar Sandino, a former insurgent leader and was was formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle.
In 1979 the Sandinistas launched an offensive from Costa Rica and Honduras that toppled Somoza.
They formed a government under Daniel Ortega Saavadra that adopted Marxist-Leninist principals.

[hiromichi]

pugachevV:

Thank you. Do you mean the paragraph states a history of ---ista words?
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Hiromichi

[pugachevV]

No, it's a weak attempt to be funny. For example a barista is what Starbucks (a chain of coffee shops) calls its employees who serve the coffee to the customers. Fashionista is used in certain areas of the press to mean people who obsessively follow fashion.
All of them are made up-words, although I believe the ending -ista is common in Spanish for members of various groups.

[hiromichi]

pugachevV:
Now I got it. Thank you very much.
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Hiromichi