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Title: The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua by Timothy C. Brown ISBN: 0-8061-3252-3 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Only American to serve with Contras loves this book
Comment: As the only American to serve three tours of duty (86, 87, 88) with ARDE-Frente Sur I am delighted that a second noted author(first was Glenn Garvin) is finally setting the record straight.
Under the war name Peregrino I starved, sickened, sweated, fought, and by the grace of God eventually won with those brave men and women. Never have I met a tougher, more self sacrificing and noble collection of people than the "Contras" and their supporters. Which were 99% of the campesino popluation of Nicaragua. - Peregrino
Rating: 5
Summary: Even the 1st editorial review couldn't resist
Comment: I'd like to refer to this:
"Brown makes an interesting case, but also neglects certain issues. For instance, while he writes in detail on Sandinista human rights abuses against the highlanders, he has nothing to say on Contra abuses except that they did occur. Without such discussion, this remains a partial, though important, account of the complex phenomenon of the Contras. B&w illus."
In the movie Braveheart, who were the good guys and who were the bad guys? Did Wallace commit abuses against the English? Yes. Was it anything like the systematic oppression and brutality offered by the English? No.
This book is about peasants who were fighting for their freedom. Read it, and you will get a glimps of what really went on in Nicaragua.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, a true account of the contras
Comment: For years, the Media in the United States has portrayed the Contras in a very negative light, focusing on half-truths and lies. While the Sandinistas were murdering thousands and thousands of people, and exiling over 1/2 million people out of the country, the Contras became Nicaragua's first line of defense against this abuse. The American media, looking to hurt Mr. Reagan, who supported this freedom fighting group, engaged in a massive campaign to destroy them.
The fact is that a large portion of the Contras were FORMER SANDINISTAS, and the majority opposed the Somoza dictatorship. These people felt betrayed that what was supposed to be a democratic revolution in 1979 turned out to be a bait-and-switch communist take-over.
The vast majority of the contras were fighting to once and for all liberate the country from dictatorship and get out of the battlezone between east and west that was destroying the country. They came from all walks of life. From Mr. Calero, who led the contras without a wish for political office after the conflict, to the thousands of Mizquito indians who led the fight in the Atlantic coast.
What is amazing is that they won, but they have never been acclaimed as winners in the US media. Nicaragua has been a democracy for the last 13 years. As the contra detractors claimed that Mr. Calero wanted to become the next dictator, he graciously vowed completely out of politics, as did comandante zero and other heros of the resistance. Those freedom fighters have let the democratic process work, and have watched as the country takes root in democracy, and fights on to get rid of the legacy of the last two dictatorships: heavy debt, poverty, and corruption.
It's about time someone told the truth!
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Title: Sandinista: Carlos Fonseca and the Nicaraguan Revolution by Matilde Zimmermann ISBN: 0822325950 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: After Revolution : Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua by Florence E. Babb ISBN: 0292709005 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Mexican Struggle for Independence, 1810-1821 by Eric Van Young, Eric Van Young ISBN: 0804748217 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Country Under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli, Kristina Cordero ISBN: 0375403701 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala by Daniel Wilkinson ISBN: 0618221395 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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