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Nicaragua

This collection features materials describing the broad and complex history of Nicaragua’s political struggle. The history of Nicaragua includes years of colonialism, dictatorships, revolutions, and rebellions. The majority of our materials focus on the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and their struggle for national liberation. The Sandinistas took their name from Augusto Cesar Sandino who led resistance against the U.S occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. The FSLN was formed by students, workers and peasants in the early 1960s and pushed for political change during Anastasio Somoza’s Debayle regime. As the 1960s progressed, the FSLN stepped up guerilla warfare and succeeded in overthrowing the Debayle regime in 1979.

Beginning in 1981, opponents of the Sandinista government began to attack Nicaragua with the financial support and training of the U.S government. These forces were known as Contras. Contras included people who fought for Somoza and had a hatred for the Sandinistas, but also included indigenous peoples of Nicaragua that the U.S had convinced to oppose the Sandinistas’ vision for the future of Nicaragua. The U.S was involved in Nicaragua for two main reasons, including, private and corporate interest and the fear of the spread of communism and Marxism. This fear was reinforced when Cuba and Soviet Russia became Nicaragua’s main contributors and allies and after the Sandinista victory.

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Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare

Author: TayacanPublisher: CRS Language ServicesDate: 10/15/1984Volume Number: October 15Format: MonographCollection: Nicaragua

This book is a manual for the training of guerrillas in psychological operations, and its application to the concrete case of the Christian and democratic crusade being waged in Nicaragua by the Freedom Commandos. Table of Contents: Introduction; Combatant-Propagandist Guerrilla; Armed Propaganda; Armed Propaganda Teams; Development and Control of Front Organizations; Control of Mass Concentrations and Meetings; Massive In-depth Support through Psychological Operations; Techniques of Oratory.

Nicaraguan Women: Unlearning the Alphabet of Submission

Publisher: Women's International Resource ExchangeYear: 1985Volume Number: FallFormat: MonographCollection: Nicaragua

A compliation of different authors writing about different topics pertaining to the role and conditions of women in Nicaragua before and following the Sandinista Revolution.