[1] Tomás Borge also held the titles of "Vice-Secretary and President of the FSLN", member of the Nicaraguan Parliament and National Congress, and Ambassador to Peru.

His father, Tomás Borge Delgado, was one of Augusto César Sandino's deputy commanders during the United States occupation of Nicaragua, from 1926 to 1932.

From a young age, Borge integrated himself in the fight against the Somoza family dictatorship, which had ruled Nicaragua since the assassination of Sandino.

With Fonseca, Borge read the first few books that would forge their political philosophies: Utopia by Thomas More, novels of John Steinbeck, works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as well as writings of Lenin.

Borge then travelled using a false passport to El Salvador and Costa Rica,[4] where he would found the Juventud Revolucionaria Nicaragüense (Nicaraguan Revolutionary Youth).

[5] After the victorious Cuban Revolution, Fonseca, Borge, and a few companions decided to use militant tactics to fight against the Somoza regime.

Upon reuniting with Fonseca, the three left to Cuba and formed friendships with Che Guevara and Tamara Bunke, who had helped them with the guerilla struggle.

On July 23, 1961, in Tegucigalpa, Borge, along with Carlos Fonseca, Francisco Buitrago, Jorge Navarro, Silvio Mayorga, José Benito Escobar, Noel Guerrero, and Germán Pomares, formed the FSLN, which would be the key to the downfall of the Somoza regime and the start of the Sandinista Revolution.

In that time he also visited the base of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon, passed by Mexico, and eventually returned to the ranks of the FSLN in Nicaragua.

On July 11, as Somoza's grip on power weakened, Borge, along with Daniel Ortega, Sergio Ramirez and Miguel d'Escoto, attended a meeting between the National Directorate and William Boudlerom, representative of the US government, at the home of Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo Odio in Puntarenas.

The CDS was responsible for gathering and dissemination of information to all Nicaraguans, conducting a block-by-block census of all numbered houses in cities, and distributing rationed goods and funding for community improvement projects.

The country has high unemployment and poverty, the treacherous bourgeoisie - an ally of the most reactionary and aggressive circles of US imperialism - show a complete disregard for its people.On July 19, 1981, in celebration of the third anniversary of the revolution, Borge reiterated that national unity, pluralism and a mixed economy were designed to strengthen, not to destabilize the revolutionary process.

After the electoral defeat of 1990, some members of the National Directorate abandoned politics, and the FSLN underwent a transformation into the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS).

Borge was buried in the mausoleum of Carlos Fonseca, at the Revolution Square in Managua; the government decreed three days of national mourning.

[12] The Misquitos accused Borge, among others, of the displacement and killing of those who opposed the Sandinista government, as told by Marcos Carmona, the President of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), to the FSLN and opposition in the context of an election campaign.

In an interview with the newspaper Nuevo Diario of Nicaragua for the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, Borge said: We had come to power covered with an aura of holiness.

[14] According to Torbiornsson, who survived the bombing, he had been asked by Renán Montero, a Cuban military officer who was working at the time for Borge's Ministry of the Interior, to meet with a man posing as a Danish news photographer and to escort him to the press conference convened by Contra leader Edén Pastora in his outpost at La Penca.

Torbiornsson attempted to press charges against Montero, Borge, and former chief of state security Lenín Cerna for murder and crimes against humanity, but the Sandinista government of President Daniel Ortega refused to investigate the matter.

The Cuban poet Roberto Fernandez Retamar believes that Borge's book "Carlos, el amanecer no es sólo un sueño", which he wrote in prison, is comparable in literary merit to the documentary prose of Gabriel García Márquez.