The Real Contra War
Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua
by Timothy C. Brown
"The Contra War and the Iran-Contra affair that shook the Reagan presidency were center stage on the U.S. political scene for nearly a decade. According to most observers, the main Contra army, or the Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), was a mercenary force hired by the CIA to oppose the Sandinista Socialist Revolution.".
"The Real Contra War demonstrates that in reality the vast majority of the FDN's combatants were peasants who had the full support of a mass popular movement consisting of the tough, independent inhabitants of Nicaragua's central highlands. The movement was merely the most recent instance of this peasantry's one-thousand-year history of resistance to those they saw as would-be conquerors."--BOOK JACKET.
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Politics and government, Militias Populares Anti-Sandinistas (Guerrilla group), Counterrevolutionaries, Insurgency, Peasant uprisings, Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, Counterrevolutions, American history, Revolutions & coups, Warfare & Defence, World history: c 1750 to c 1900, World history: from c 1900 -, Latin America - Central America, Military History - Modern, Rebellion And Insurgency, History, History - Military / War, Nicaragua, History: World, Milicias Populares Anti-Sandin, Military - Other, 1979-1990, Milicias Populares Anti-Sandinistas, Nicaragua, politics and government, Nicaragua, historyShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The Real Contra War: Highlander Peasant Resistance in Nicaragua
February 2001, University of Oklahoma Press
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0806132523 9780806132525
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"Iran-Contra, Oliver North, Congressional hearings, campus demonstrations, Contras as archvillains in movies and novels: Nicaragua's Contra War was at the center of a political fire storm second perhaps only to Vietnam in the passions it generated."
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