Sandinistas

Ante la proximidad del 47º aniversario de la victoria sandinista en Nicaragua, la excomandante Dora María Téllez detalla cómo el movimiento perdió el rumbo y cómo se puede recuperar el futuro.

Ahead of the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua, former comandante Dora María Téllez details how the movement lost its way—and how the future can be reclaimed.

Jarquín’s excellent book details the Sandinista revolution, its regional stakes, and the contradictory effects brought by external involvement.

Leftist politics has always had a complex relationship with women’s struggles, one that many times translates into political exploitation and

In October 2006, Nicaragua became one of a handful of countries, including Chile and El Salvador, where abortion is illegal

Fifty thousand Nicaraguans died in the late 1970s overthrowing the brutal dictatorship that had ruled the country for half a

Four years ago this month when the triumphant Sandinistas entered Managua nobody expected the future to be easy. Decades of

How has the women's movement developed in Nicaragua? he women's movement in Nicaragua is today one of the strongest and

Instead of the expected bipolar division between the UNO and the FSLN, a more complicated and fluid set of alignments

Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista Front has never harbored many illusions that the general and presidential elections scheduled for November 4 would

    When the Sandinista Revolution triumphed in 1979, Nicaragua had already gone through10 constitutions, generated and discarded by a

On a recent visit to the States a friend asked me, "So, are the Sandinistas washed up?" I took a