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Author: John W. Murphy
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0786424354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This social biography describes the life of Padre Uriel Molina and his role in the Sandinista Revolution, interweaving history with personal recollections and perspectives. Compiled from primary sources and extensive interviews with Molina himself, it co
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781230847795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Sandinista National Liberation Front, Sandinismo, Role of the Catholic Church in the Nicaraguan Revolution, Sandinista Ideologies, Role of women in Nicaraguan Revolution, Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign, La Penca bombing, Ben Linder, Sandinista Popular Army, Gaspar Garcia Laviana, Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement, Junta of National Reconstruction, Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women, Los Doce, Nicaraguan Socialist Party, Uriel Molina, Joaquin Cuadra, Communist Party of Nicaragua, Rigoberto Cruz, Revolutionary Unity Movement, Workers' Revolutionary Party, Barricada. Excerpt: The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: , or FSLN) is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are called Sandinistas in both English and Spanish. The party is named after Augusto Cesar Sandino who led the Nicaraguan resistance against the United States occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place. Following their seizure of power, the Sandinistas ruled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction. Following the resignation of centrist members from this Junta, the FSLN took exclusive power in March 1981. They instituted a policy of mass literacy, devoted significant resources to health care, and promoted gender equality. Oppositional militias, known as Contras, formed in 1981 to resist the Sandinista's Junta and received support from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The 1984 elections, described by international observers as fair and free, were nevertheless boycotted by the main opposition. The FSLN won the majority of the votes. Those who did oppose the Sandinistas won approximately a third of the seats. Despite the clear...
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.
Author: Humberto Belli
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 304
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Author: Margaret Randall
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The controversy within the Catholic Church over the concept of liberation theology raises the questions: is there room in Christian philosophy for a socialist society? And is there a place in a socialist society? Nicaragua's recent experience, says Margaret Randall, shows the answer to these questions to be "yes". The dominant role Christianity played in the Nicaraguan revolution both before and after the 1979 overthrow of the Somoza regime shows that the concrete goals shared by the two ideologies, Christianity and Marxism, outweigh their theoretical contradictions. The main part of Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution consists of long narratives by members of two Christian base communities with key roles in the Nicaraguan revolution. Solentiname is the retreat founded in the mid-sixties by Father Ernesto Cardenal -- now Nicaragua's minister of culture -- on a remote island in Lake Nicaragua. El Riguero is an urban community, founded in 1972 by father Uriel Molina in a Managua barrio. Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution features the voices of "ordinary" believers as well as those of well-known religious and political leaders" -- Back cover.
Author: Kathleen McCallie
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2024-06-18
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1666782432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do international encounters in Nicaragua connect spiritual formation and liberation theology to transform communities? Seekers of justice from around the world found inspiration in the Nicaraguan revolution and struggle for freedom. After recognizing the patronizing, neocolonial structure of missionary models of aid, pastor Leslie Penrose founded a nonprofit organization, JustHope, with core values of solidarity, mutuality, collaboration, and sustainability in partnership. Hundreds of participants have joined this quest to enact the compassionate and just ethics of the Hebrew prophets and the liberating power of Jesus. Inspiring stories of Nicaraguan-led creativity exploring a new future with volunteers from the U.S. are told by pastoral theologian and ethicist Kathleen McCallie. Framed as an interdisciplinary case study of seminary students traveling for solidarity to explore social justice with JustHope, the book offers glimpses of one group’s journey. Readers explore possibilities for an international partnership between U.S. volunteers and Nicaraguan community organizers. The Nicaraguan base-community model offers critiques of and alternatives to the church in the U.S. and neoliberal development. McCallie contributes to academic and activist discourses about dismantling abusive theology, racism, sexism, and U.S. hegemony.
Author: Roger Miranda
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1992-03-01
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781412819688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The conflict in Nicaragua is one of the leastunderstood struggles of the Cold War. . . . This account clarifies the central issue and dispelsmany lingering myths." --Zbigniew Breinski,National Security Advisor during the Carter administration
Author: Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0271050586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThose who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.
Author: Arnold Weissberg
Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jung Min Choi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1000389448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes up the challenge of the failure of most initiatives in community-based service delivery to address the significant philosophical shift that is necessary to create, implement, and evaluate appropriately these sorts of projects. Challenging the tendency to focus entirely on practicalities, the authors emphasize the centrality of philosophy to any successful community-based undertaking. While fully acknowledging the importance of local knowledge and the guidance of projects by local people, this volume shows that these principles are often at odds with the ‘Cartesian’ mindset that underpins much project planning, with its emphasis on objectivity in science and knowledge. Since all knowledge is mediated by human activity and embedded in language and other modes of expression, this dualist approach must be reconsidered. A thorough rethinking of traditional service delivery, which takes into account issues of data, methodology, and bias together with questions of generalizability, community, power, and communication, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, social policy, and social work with interests in community-based service delivery.
