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Title: The Death of Ben Linder: The Story of a North American in Sandinista Nicaragua by Joan Kruckewitt ISBN: 1-58322-068-2 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 09 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Linder Made Bad Choices.
Comment: The book is, predictably, awash in Left Wing garbage. I would not waste my time with it if I were you. Linder simply made the choice to align himself with the wrong people, namely, Red Danny Ortega's Communist punks. Ortega was in bed with the USSR, and why anyone would support Ortega's regime is beyond comprehension. President Reagan came along just in the nick of time. Too bad Linder got in the way, but sometimes we make bad choices that are very costly.
Rating: 4
Summary: Did the CIA kill Ben Linder?
Comment: If you are one of the many people who risked their lives when they traveled to Central America during the 1980's this book is for you! If you missed that experience but want to know what would motivate someone to risk their lives for peace and social justice by going to Nicaragua and participating in the revolution then, this book is for you!
During the 1980's U.S. foreign policy in Central America was driven by an obsessive effort to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas had overthrown a dictator and were developing a society that put people before profits. They set up free health care, carried out a massive literacy campaign, and gave land to small farmers.
This threat of "a good example" was countered by the U.S. which created a mercenary army (the Contras) who set out to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. Tactics included killing teachers, destroying health clinics, and forcing the Sandinistas to spend more and more of their resources on the military.
Ben Linder was an engineer from Portland who put his life on the line to support the people of Nicaragua. Ben was also a clown and often put on his red nose and clown make-up to juggle and unicycle in poor neighborhoods, where children had never seen a clown. He worked in a small rural village in Northern Nicaragua, maybe 30 miles from my communities sister city of Telpaneca, near the Honduran border. Like the Fresnan's who built a school in Telpaneca during the Contra War, Ben was working on a hydroelectric project trying in a positive way to support the revolution. THE DEATH OF BEN LINDER, THE STORY OF A NORTH AMERICAN IN SANDINISTA NICARAGUA is an insightful book that reminds us why people are willing to put their lives on the line for a cause they believe in. It shows the tragic results of U.S. foreign policy that seeks to make the world safe for corporations seeking to maximize profits.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dreadful warmed-over "Sandalista" tripe
Comment: Longtime pro-Sandinista activist Joan Kruckewit's apotheistic account of "red-diaper" baby, part-time clown and part-time Sandinista militia man (read the AP, LA Times and Dallas Morning News accounts at the time of Linder's killing) is a truly painful exercise in dreadful, warmed over "Sandalista" tripe. Tendentious, poorly written and dull, and playing fast and loose with the facts. The ultimate critique must be that the red and black mafia for which Ben Linder gave his life hasn't won an election since 1984 and is a totally discredited and corrupt political force. A really misleading and mediocre book about a controversial period in Latin American politics that polarized America.
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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: 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: Life Is Hard: Machismo, Danger, and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua by Roger N. Lancaster ISBN: 0520089294 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua by Margaret Randall ISBN: 0813520258 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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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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