Death Of Somoza

Author : Claribel Alegría,Darwin J. Flakoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004047881

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Death of Somoza by Claribel Alegría,Darwin J. Flakoll Pdf

Death of Somoza reveals the inside story of the assassination of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in Asuncion, Paraguay in 1980. Alegria and Flakoll, on the recommendation of Julio Cortazar, met "Ramon," a leader in the Argentinian Revolutionary Workers' Party (PRT) and with his help were able to interview all the survivors of the commando team that carried out the "bringing to justice" of Somoza. Alegria and Flakoll rewove these testimonies into a narrative that reads like a thriller and gives a vivid picture of the political and social climate of the time. Enlivened by its colorful cast of characters, Death of Somoza is the definitive account of how Anastasio Somoza Debayle was brought to justice. This story is not an apology for terrorism, but rather the chronicle of a tyrannicide.

Author : Anastasio Somoza,Jack Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000160764

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Nicaragua Betrayed by Anastasio Somoza,Jack Cox Pdf

Tells how Somoza's government in Nicaragua fell.

Author : Claudia Rueda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477319307

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Students of Revolution by Claudia Rueda Pdf

Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979—one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection—one in which societal groups from elite housewives to rural laborers came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime’s repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.

Author : Bernard Diederich
Publisher : Marcus Wiener
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001788268

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Somoza and the Legacy of U.S. Involvement in Central America by Bernard Diederich Pdf

Author : José Carlos Somoza
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 0349116180

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The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza Pdf

THE ATHENIAN MURDERS is a brilliant, very entertaining and absolutely original literary mystery, revolving round two intertwined riddles. In classical Athens, one of the pupils of Plato's Academy is found dead. His idealistic teacher suspects that this wasn't an accident and asks Herakles, known as the 'Decipherer of Enigmas', to investigate the death and ultimately a dark, irrational and subversive cult. The second plot unfolds in parallel through the footnotes of the translator of the text. As he proceeds with his work, he becomes increasingly convinced that the original author has hidden a second meaning, which can be brought to light by interpreting certain repeated words and images. As the main plot and also the translation of the manuscript advances, there are certain sinister coincidences, and it seems that the text is addressing him personally and in an increasingly menacing manner... THE ATHENIAN MURDERS constitutes a highly compelling, entertaining and intelligent game about the different ways we can see and read reality, about our refusal to take things 'as they are' and our need to interpret hidden meanings into everyday life.

Author : Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271068022

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Before the Revolution by Victoria González-Rivera Pdf

Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.

Author : Knut Walter
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807866214

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The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956 by Knut Walter Pdf

To many observers, Anastasio Somoza, who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, personified the worst features of a dictator. While not dismissing these characteristics, Knut Walter argues that the regime was in fact more notable for its achievement of stability, economic growth, and state building than for its personalistic and dictatorial features. Using a wide range of sources in Nicaraguan archives, Walter focuses on institutional and structural developments to explain how Somoza gained and consolidated power. According to Walter, Somoza preferred to resolve conflicts by political means rather than by outright coercion. Specifically, he built his government on agreements negotiated with the country's principal political actors, labor groups, and business organizations. Nicaragua's two traditional parties, one conservative and the other liberal, were included in elections, thus giving the appearance of political pluralism. Partly as a result, the opposition was forced to become increasingly radical, says Walter; eventually, in 1979, Nicaragua produced the only successful revolution in Central America and the first in all of Latin America since Cuba's.

Author : Thomas Leonard,Jurgen Buchenau,Kyle Longley,Graeme Mount
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608717927

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Encyclopedia of U.S. - Latin American Relations by Thomas Leonard,Jurgen Buchenau,Kyle Longley,Graeme Mount Pdf

No previous work has covered the web of important players, places, and events that have shaped the history of the United States’ relations with its neighbors to the south. From the Monroe Doctrine through today’s tensions with Latin America’s new leftist governments, this history is rich in case studies of diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation and contentiousness. Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations is a comprehensive, three-volume, A-to-Z reference featuring more than 800 entries detailing the political, economic, and military interconnections between the United States and the countries of Latin America, including Mexico and the nations in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. Entries cover: Each country and its relationship with the United States Key politicians, diplomats, and revolutionaries in each country Wars, conflicts, and other events Policies and treaties Organizations central to the political and diplomatic history of the western hemisphere Key topics covered include: Coups and terrorist organizations U.S. military interventions in the Caribbean Mexican-American War The Cold War, communism, and dictators The war on drugs in Latin America Panama Canal Embargo on Cuba Pan-Americanism and Inter-American conferences The role of commodities like coffee, bananas, copper, and oil “Big Stick” and Good Neighbor policies Impact of religion in U.S.-Latin American relations Neoliberal economic development model U.S. Presidents from John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama Latin American leaders from Simon Bolivar to Hugo Chavez With expansive coverage of more than 200 years of important and fascinating events, this new work will serve as an important addition to the collections of academic, public, and school libraries serving students and researchers interested in U.S. history and diplomacy, Latin American studies, international relations, and current events.

Author : Peter Lambert,Andrew Nickson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822352686

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The Paraguay Reader by Peter Lambert,Andrew Nickson Pdf

Hemmed in by the vast, arid Chaco to the west and, for most of its history, impenetrable jungles to the east, Paraguay has been defined largely by its isolation. Partly as a result, there has been a dearth of serious scholarship or journalism about the country. Going a long way toward redressing this lack of information and analysis, The Paraguay Reader is a lively compilation of testimonies, journalism, scholarship, political tracts, literature, and illustrations, including maps, photographs, paintings, drawings, and advertisements. Taken together, the anthology's many selections convey the country's extraordinarily rich history and cultural heritage, as well as the realities of its struggles against underdevelopment, foreign intervention, poverty, inequality, and authoritarianism. Most of the Reader is arranged chronologically. Weighted toward the twentieth century and early twenty-first, it nevertheless gives due attention to major events in Paraguay's history, such as the Triple Alliance War (1864–70) and the Chaco War (1932–35). The Reader's final section, focused on national identity and culture, addresses matters including ethnicity, language, and gender. Most of the selections are by Paraguayans, and many of the pieces appear in English for the first time. Helpful introductions by the editors precede each of the book's sections and all of the selected texts.

Author : Dan La Botz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004291317

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What Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution by Dan La Botz Pdf

This volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that the revolution went awry.

Author : Michael D. Gambone
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0275959430

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Eisenhower, Somoza, and the Cold War in Nicaragua by Michael D. Gambone Pdf

During the Cold War era, the United States faced the prospect of expanding its power in Central America. But we miscalculated—grievously. After 1945, Central America teemed with leaders willing to alter the region's quasi-colonial status. Some, like Fidel Castro, sought out revolution to shatter the status quo. Others, like Anastasio Somoza Garcia, attempted to seek out new directions along more subtle paths. Nicaragua subsequently challenged American hegemony in a manner at once more deliberate and more dangerous than any other effort in the hemisphere. The Somoza regime, unlike its contemporaries, chose to utilize American institutions and American preferences to subvert the latter's power rather than reinforce it. American arrogance, combined with a complacent approach to policy in its global backyard, offered a myriad of political, military, and economic opportunities to a leader willing to take risks. In the years after 1945, Somoza was thus able to peel away layers of clientage until, at certain moments, he could act as a partner of his northern neighbor.

Author : Robert Kagan
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0028740572

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A Twilight Struggle by Robert Kagan Pdf

"Kagan contends that the Carter administration's halfhearted intervention in Nicaragua was in response to American feelings of guilt for Washington's longtime support of the Somoza dynasty. The Reagan-era intervention, on the other hand, originated in American anxiety over Soviet encroachment in the Western hemisphere. Kagan recounts how American popular aversion to the employment of U.S. military muscle in Central America led to the administration's covert support of the contras and goes on to explain how the clash between the Reagan White House and Congress over "freedom fighter" funding led to the Iran-contra affair in 1987. Although the surprising electoral victory of Violeta Chamorro over the Sandinistas was widely recognized as a success for American policy, the U.S. remains caught in a continuous cycle of intervention and withdrawal in Nicaragua, according to Kagan. As a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, Kagan was a direct participant in many of the events described in this authoritative and definitive account of U.S."--Publisher's description.

Author : Anthony Lake
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870237330

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Somoza Falling by Anthony Lake Pdf

'Carefully examines how our policy toward Nicaragua in 1978-89 emerged, describes the characteristics of the middle players in this decision-making process, and discusses the complexities which govern their two important groups--career officers and political appointees. The result is an insightful, objective, and clear account, based in part on frank interviews and personal experiences, that illustrates both policy-making groups' paradoxical positions and offers precise lessons to be learned from past dealings with Third World revolutions.' --Library Journal

Author : Edelberto Torres-rivas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000309737

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Repression And Resistance by Edelberto Torres-rivas Pdf

This book summarizes the multiple origins of the crisis that Central Americans are suffering today. It focuses on an analysis of the revolutionary popular movements as a form of social movement capable of joining together a diversity of class-based groups.

Author : Raymond Estep
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Latin America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018618959

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The Latin American Nations Today by Raymond Estep Pdf