Recounting the author's visit to Nicaragua, this book offers a history of the years prior to the revolution and analyzes how a small, impoverished, unstrategic country has been transformed into the obsession of a major power's ...
This book will appeal not only to professional historians but to general readers as well.
Looks into issues including the Sandinista legacy, the new political systems, the economy, the constitution and property, the 1996 elections, and Nicaragua's continuing transition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The book begins by describing the people, geography, culture, and current political, economic, and social systems of Nicaragua.
Michel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid–nineteenth century through ...
Nicaragua Today: A Republican Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
Clifford L. Staten Ph.D. ... workers who did not lose their jobs, dramatic cuts in social spending in areas such as education and health care, and the elimination of government subsidies on basic food staples such as beans and rice.
Issue your students a passport to travel the globe to Nicaragua!
Bill Keller , New York Times , February 28 , 1985. Also see Iran - Contra Report , p . 49 . 48. Joel Brinkley , New York Times , March 17 , 1985 . 49. Memorandum from North and Fortier to McFarlane , March 22 , 1985 , with Chronology ...
Nicaragua, what Went Wrong?