Saints and Sandinistas
Author: Andrew Bradstock
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 110
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Saints and Sandinistas
Author: Andrew Bradstock
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSandinista Nicaragua's Resistance to US Coercion
Author: Héctor Perla (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 110711389X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the process through which Nicaraguans defeated US aggression in a highly unequal confrontation.
Adiós Muchachos
Author: Sergio Ramírez
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2011-10-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822350873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, as well as the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to turn an insurrection into a government, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the United States. Adiós Muchachos was first published in 1999. Based on a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more recent developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.
Sandinista Narratives
Author: Jean-Pierre Reed
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-10-21
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1498523501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSandinista Narratives is an analysis of the role of agency in the Nicaraguan Revolution and its aftermath. Jean-Pierre Reed argues that the insurrection in Nicaragua was shaped by political contingency, action-specific subjectivity, and popular culture. He also examines how Sandinista ideology contributed to state-building in Nicaragua while tracing the role of post-revolutionary Sandinismo as a political identity.
Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
Author: Harry E. Vanden
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781555876821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors convincingly argue that the democratic tradition and practice that was emerging in Socialist Nicaragua could well have served as a model for other Third World states. After showing why participating democracy didn't triumph, they conclude with an assessment of the 1990 elections and their impact on the future of democracy in Nicaragua. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Revolution, Revival, and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua
Author: Calvin L. Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007-03-31
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9047419359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary study breaks new ground by exploring relations between Protestants (mainly Pentecostals) and the Sandinistas in revolutionary Nicaragua, which to date have received scant attention. It challenges the view that most Protestants supported the Sandinistas (in fact, the majority vigorously opposed them) and establishes why many believed Nicaragua was heading towards communism or totalitarianism. Meanwhile, the Sandinistas expressed irritation with Pentecostalism’s otherworldliness and support for Israel. Pentecostals were harassed, even brutally repressed in the northern highlands, leading many to join the Contras. That a minority of Protestants supported the Sandinistas caused further problems. Pentecostals and Sandinistas were ideological rivals offering an alternative vision to the poor: revolution or revival. As Pentecostalism exploded, a collision between the two was inevitable.
New Worlds
Author: John Lynch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-06-26
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 0300183747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.The book follows the development of religious culture over time by focusing on peak periods of change: the response of religion to the Enlightenment, the emergence of the Church from the wars of independence, the Romanization of Latin American religion as the papacy overtook the Spanish crown in effective control of the Church, the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state, and in the twentieth century, military dictators' assaults on human rights. Throughout the narrative, Lynch develops a number of special themes and topics. Among these are the Spanish struggle for justice for Indians, the Church's position on slavery, the concept of popular religion as distinct from official religion, and the development of liberation theology.
Bernardo and the Virgin
Author: Silvio Sirias
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007-04-27
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0810124270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year is 1980, and the Sandinistas are newly in power in Nicaragua. Bernardo Martínez, a modest, unassuming tailor in the town of Cuapa, witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow appears around the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, and soon the Holy Virgin appears. Though a work of fiction, Bernardo and the Virgin is based on the real-life experiences of Bernardo Martínez. Silvio Sirias’s sweeping novel tells many stories, weaving together the true account of this humble, devout man with the moving and often humorous fictional tales of the people whom he influenced and inspired. It is also a stormy epic of Nicaragua through the long Somoza years and the Sandinista revolution.
Peasants in Arms
Author: Lynn Horton
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 0896802043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the testimonies of local people, from contra collaborators and ex-combatants to pro-Sandinista peasants, this dynamic account of a generation of rural instability explores the growing divisions between the peasants who took up arms in defense of revolutionary programs and ideals, such as land reform and equality, and those who opposed the Sandinistas.
