What the Sandinistas Won in Nicaragua
Forty-two years ago today, Sandinista National Liberation Front forces captured Managua and put an end to the Somoza dictatorship. It was a triumph that changed the course of Latin American history.
2 Articles by: Jeffrey L. Gould
Jeffrey L. Gould is Distinguished Professor and Rudy Professor of History at Indiana University and the author of several books, including most recently Solidarity Under Siege: The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Entre el Bosque y los Arboles: Utopías Menores en El Salvador, Nicaragua, y Uruguay (Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, 2020).
Ortega and the Uprising
The Daniel Ortega of today is not the Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista Revolution.