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May 15, 2024
Michael Fox

The 1979 Sandinista victory over the Somoza dictatorship sparked hope across Central America and beyond. Nicaragua quickly became ground zero of a violent U.S.-backed counterrevolutionary war.

May 3, 2024
Heather Vrana

Eline van Ommen’s new book presents a nuanced exploration of Sandinista international relations that weaves together impressive archival research.

February 16, 2023
Lorraine Bayard de Volo

Karen Kampwirth’s new book examines nearly five decades of LGBTQ organizing, culture, persecution, and resistance in Nicaragua.

September 24, 2018
James Phillips

Many reports on the situation in Nicaragua have failed to capture the complexity of the crisis

 

July 25, 2018
Jeffrey L. Gould

Making sense of Daniel Ortega’s slow betrayal of the Nicaraguan revolution

July 9, 2018
Rebecca Gordon

...and at a crossroads.

December 2, 2016
Laura Hobson Herlihy and Brett Spencer

Yatama, an indigenous political party on the Caribbean coast, contests Daniel Ortega’s hegemony.

September 16, 2016
Jennifer Goett and Courtney Desiree Morris

Political repression in the country has its roots in U.S. intervention.

September 6, 2016
Laura Hobson Herlihy

Farmers, cattle-ranchers, and extractive industries threaten the livelihood of Nicaragua’s Miskitu people while the government of Daniel Ortega looks the other way.

March 23, 2012
Michael Fox

Thirty years ago, today, on March 23, 1982, Guatemalan general Efraín Ríos Montt overthrew President Romeo Lucas García. The new military junta suspended the Constitution, closed the legislature, and installed one of the bloodiest military regimes in Guatemalan history. Three decades later, for the first issue of our 45th anniversary volume, we look to the legacies of war in Central America.

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