Inspired by the Sandinista victory of 1979, artists from all over Latin America, Europe and North America came to Nicaragua in the 1980s and filled the newly liberated Central American country's public spaces with murals. As in previous Latin American revolutions, such as in Mexico, Cuba and Chile, the murals they painted depicted socialist themes of free health care and education, struggles against poverty and corruption, Spanish colonialism and U.S. imperialism. The Sandinista murals, however, were unique in that they often incorporated religious themes, and were the world's first socialist revolutionary murals to be painted in churches.