IV. U.S. Strategy
"My friends have told Carter not to continue on this course if he wants their support on many future questions ...
I. Somoza Apparatus
"Instability" has plagued Nicaragua for over a century. Despite 21 years of almost uninterrupted U.S. military occupation, followed by 42 ...
Nicaragua’s Structural Hurricane
A hurricane or natural disaster hits two equally populated territories with the same force. Why is it that the human ...
Washington and the Caudillos: Calculation and Miscalculation in Managua
As foreign reporters descended upon Managua during the runup to last fall’s presidential election between Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...
Strange Bedfellows: The Aleman-Ortega Pact
Consensus politics has a bad name in Nicaragua—that is, where "consensus" means divvying up the spoils of government. The Somozas ...
II. Bourgeois Opposition
Some of the most powerful capitalists in Nicaragua are calling on Somoza to step down. Their demand, echoed by several ...
The Rise and Fall of the FSLN
Twenty-five years ago, amid the urban insurrection against the brutal regime of Anastasio Somoza, teenagers armed with no more than ...
