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Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War

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Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as “a force of nature on the page and off.” That force is fully present in Blood on the Border, the third in her acclaimed series of memoirs. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Blood on the Border is Dunbar-Ortiz’s firsthand account of the decade-long dirty war pursued by the Contras and the USA against the people of Nicaragua.

With the 1981 bombing of a Nicaraguan plane in Mexico City—a plane Dunbar-Ortiz herself would have been on if not for a delay—the United States-backed Contras (short for los contrarrevolucionarios) launched a major offensive against Nicaragua’s Sandinista regime, which the Reagan administration labeled as communist. Whilst her wealthy political analysis of the United States-Nicaraguan relationship bears the mark of a trained historian, Dunbar-Ortiz also writes from her point of view as an intrepid activist who spent months at a time all the way through the 1980s in the war-torn country, especially in the remote northeastern region, where the Indigenous Miskitu people were relentlessly assailed and nearly wiped out by CIA-trained Contra mercenaries. She makes painfully clear the connections between what many US Americans as of late take into account that only vaguely as the Iran-Contra “affair” and ongoing US aggression in the Americas, the Middle East, and around the globe—connections made even more explicit in a new afterword written for this edition.

A compelling, important, and sobering story by itself, Blood on the Border offers a deeply informed, closely observed, and heartfelt view of history in the making.

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