Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

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Adiós Muchachos is a candid insider’s account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. All over the 1970s, Sergio Ramírez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to reinforce the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), against Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship. After the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza regime in 1979, Ramírez served as vice-president under Daniel Ortega from 1985 until 1990, when the FSLN lost power in a national election. Disillusioned by his former comrades’ increasing intolerance of dissent and resistance to democratization, Ramírez defected from the Sandinistas in 1995 and founded the Sandinista Renovation Movement. In Adiós Muchachos, he describes the utopian aspirations for liberation and reform that motivated the Sandinista revolution against the Somoza regime, in addition to the triumphs and shortcomings of the movement’s leadership as it struggled to show an rebel into a central authority, reconstruct a country beset by poverty and internal conflict, and defend the revolution against the Contras, an armed counterinsurgency supported by the US. Adiós Muchachos used to be first published in 1999. In response to a later edition, this translation includes Ramírez’s thoughts on more latest developments, including the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president in 2006.
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